Genetics and Gene Therapy
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Author(s): S. McLean
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 0754620557
Format: hardback
535pp
Price: £120.00
Review Date: 11 August 2005
Review: The field of genetics has produced a wide range of reactions: the hope of potential benefits and the fear of genetic knowledge and its implications. The essays taken from learned journals in this volume illustrate how wide-ranging the concerns are, ranging from regulation to cloning, with the fear of discrimination in between. The book is divided into two parts. The first begins with a range of general discussions about the genetic enterprise itself, followed by consideration of some specific questions. The second part includes papers discussing particular aspects of gene therapy, testing and cloning.