The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine by Nathaniel Comfort

The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine

Nathaniel Comfort

316 pages • first pub 2012 (view editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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A thoughtful new look at the entwined histories of genetic medicine and eugenics, with probing discussion of the moral risks of seeking human perfection Almost daily we hear news stories, advertisements, and scientific reports promising that gene...

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