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By Linda L. McCabe and Edward R.B. McCabe. 339 pp., illustrated. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2008. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-520-25187-8.

Recent progress in human and medical genetics has been nothing short of astonishing in its breadth, complexity, and speed. There have been few comprehensive reviews of the ethical and social issues that are posed by achievements in the field, particularly those that came after the completion of the Human Genome Project. DNA: Promise and Peril goes a long way toward exploring these issues in a painstaking yet readable scholarly treatise. The McCabes bring to this rather daunting endeavor their considerable experience in research, political activism, program development, and teaching. Throughout, they make a convincing case that we are not our . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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