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By Allen Buchanan, Dan W. Brock, Norman Daniels, and Daniel Wikler. 398 pp. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. $29.95. ISBN 0-521-66001-7.

Just when President Clinton has joined other world leaders to announce the completion of the first draft of the human genome, four philosophers have stepped forward to perform an "ethical autopsy" of eugenics, in which they explore the implications of eugenic theory for new genetic interventions. As its title suggests, From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice is a benchmark treatise. It is captivatingly succinct and complex, and its authors grasp the fundamental issues of justice, fairness, and equality that exist in eugenics, just beneath the glitzy research and "big science" used to map the human genome. As the authors . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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