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Previous Volume 341:2102-2103 December 30, 1999 Number 27

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Edited by Ronald A. Carson and Mark A. Rothstein. 206 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. $39.95. ISBN 0-8018-6069-5.

Perhaps no field of scientific inquiry is as likely to be misunderstood and abused as genetics. Part of the misunderstanding arises from archaic views about what genes are and how they are expressed during development. The extreme abuse of genetic information at various times has mainly been attributable to larger efforts to use genetic arguments in order to shape society and science according to political agendas (i.e., eugenics and Lysenkoism). If this is the backdrop against which culture assimilates genetic information, then what will happen as a result of the current genetic revolution? Genetic knowledge and technology are advancing at . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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