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(Basic Bioethics.) Edited by David Lazer. 414 pp. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2004. $67 (cloth); $27 (paper). ISBN 0-262-12265-0 (cloth); 0-262-62186-X (paper).

Over the past decade, DNA technology has become fixed in the popular consciousness as a reliable tool for the identification of the guilty and the exoneration of the innocent. Arguably, the public's expectations regarding DNA testing are such that a failure to use it in any major criminal prosecution would have to be explained to the jury. This book takes the popular acceptance of forensic DNA identification as fact and focuses on some of the policy issues that have emerged as the technology has come to prominence. The book consists of a collection of essays representing diverse political and philosophical . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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