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Volume 346:1420 May 2, 2002 Number 18
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Genetics in the Clinic: Clinical, Ethical, and Social Implications for Primary Care

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By Mary B. Mahowald, Victor A. McKusick, Angela S. Scheuerle, and Timothy J. Aspinwall. 304 pp. St. Louis, Mosby, 2001. $39.95. ISBN 0-323-01203-5.

This book is the product of a three-year project supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and entitled "Implications of the Geneticization of Healthcare for Primary Care Practitioners." Geneticization, a term coined by Lippman in 1991, is "an ongoing process by which differences between individuals are reduced to their DNA codes, with most disorders, behaviors, and physiological variations defined, at least in part, as genetic in origin." Given the rapid expansion of information in genetics, which will accelerate even more with the completion of the Human Genome Project, exploring the implications for primary care practitioners is an extremely ambitious project. . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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