Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense

by David S. Moore, Jeremy Gruber, Sheldon Krimsky

Can genes determine which fifty-year-old will succumb to Alzheimer's, which citizen will turn out on voting day, and which child will be marked for a life of crime? Yes, according to the Internet, a few scientific studies, and some in the biotechnology industry who should know better. Sheldon Krimsky and Jeremy Gruber gather a team of genetic experts to argue that treating genes as the holy grail of our physical being is a patently unscientific...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674064461
• ISBN13: 9780674064461
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"