Heredity and Hope. The Case for Genetic Screening
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Author(s): R. Schwartz Cowan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674024243
Format: hardback
292pp
Price: £18.95, $27.95, €21
Review Date: 26 October 2008
Review: In this book the author make the ethical argument for genetic testing, using historians’ tools, exploring the history of genetic screening. She aims to persuade the critics of genetic testing to rethink their positions and to provide some guidelines for doctors, patients and anyone who will have to make decisions about these complex matters. There are chapters on: Many varieties of beautiful inheritance; Eugenics and the genealogical fallacy; Pronatal motives and prenatal diagnosis; No matter what, this has to stop; Genetic screening and genocidal claims; and Parents, politicians, physicians and priests.