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By Walter Glannon. 235 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 2007. $45. ISBN 978-0-19-530778-8.

Much attention is being focused on the influence that new genetic knowledge will have on medicine, the development of new drugs and vaccines, the law, insurance, civil rights, and the workplace. It is no doubt true that knowing more about human, animal, and microbial genomics has already begun to have, and will continue to have, revolutionary consequences. But the consequences are likely to arrive relatively slowly because of the long causal distance from genes to many traits and behaviors that are of great interest.

Less attention has been paid to the influence new knowledge of the human brain will have . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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