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“nathaniel comfort”

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

    by Nathaniel Comfort ...
    Almost daily we hear news stories, advertisements, and scientific reports that promise genetic medicine will make us live longer, enable doctors to identify and treat diseases before they start, and individualize our medical care. But surprisingly, a century ago eugenicists were making the same promises. The Science of Human Perfection traces the history of the promises of medical genetics and of ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

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

    by Nathaniel Comfort ...
    Almost daily we hear news stories, advertisements, and scientific reports that promise genetic medicine will make us live longer, enable doctors to identify and treat diseases before they start, and individualize our medical care. But surprisingly, a century ago eugenicists were making the same promises. The Science of Human Perfection traces the history of the promises of medical genetics and of ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Panda's Black Box

    Opening up the Intelligent Design Controversy

    by Scott Gilbert, Edward J. Larson, Jane Maienschein, Michael Ruse, Robert M. Young ...
    The debate over Intelligent Design seemingly represents an extension of the fundamental conflict between creationists and evolutionists. ID proponents, drawing on texts such as Darwin's Black Box and Of Pandas and People, urge schools to "teach the controversy" in biology class alongside evolution. The scientific mainstream has reacted with fury, branding Intelligent Design as pseudoscience and ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

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    by Siddhartha Mukherjee ...
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    $21.99 CAD

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  • A Crack In Creation

    Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

    by Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg ...
    BY THE WINNER OF THE 2020 NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY | Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize“A powerful mix of science and ethics . . . This book is required reading for every concerned citizen—the material it covers should be discussed in schools, colleges, and universities throughout the country.”— New York Review of BooksNot since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Hippocratic Writings

    by Hippocrates ...
    Translated by E.T. Withington, I.M. Lonie, J. Chadwick, W.N. Mann ...
    This work is a sampling of the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of ancient Greek medical works. At the beginning, and interspersed throughout, there are discussions on the philosophy of being a physician. There is a large section about how to treat limb fractures, and the section called The Nature of Man describes the physiological theories of the time. The book ends with a discussion of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The PKU Paradox

    A Short History of a Genetic Disease

    by Diane B. Paul, Jeffrey P. Brosco ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease
    Named one of the "Ten must-read science histories" by Science MagazineIn a lifetime of practice, most physicians will never encounter a single case of PKU. Yet every physician in the industrialized world learns about the disease in medical school and, since the early 1960s, the newborn heel stick test for PKU has been mandatory in many countries. Diane B. Paul and Jeffrey P. Brosco’s beautifully ... Read more

    $34.09 CAD

  • The Age of Genomes

    Tales from the Front Lines of Genetic Medicine

    by Jon Luoma, Steven Monroe Lipkin ...
    A leading geneticist explores what promises to be one of the most transformative advances in health and medicine in historyAlmost every week, another exciting headline appears about new advances in the field of genetics. Genetic testing is experiencing the kind of exponential growth once seen with the birth of the Internet, while the plummeting cost of DNA sequencing makes it increasingly ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Telling Genes

    The Story of Genetic Counseling in America

    by Alexandra Minna Stern ...
    The history of contemporary genetic counseling, including its medical, personal, and ethical dimensions.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLFor sixty years genetic counselors have served as the messengers of important information about the risks, realities, and perceptions of genetic conditions. More than 2,500 certified genetic counselors in the United States work in ... Read more

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  • Trusting Doctors

    The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine

    by Jonathan B. Imber ...
    For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to professional ethics. Patients revered their doctors as representatives of a sacred vocation. Do we still trust doctors with the same conviction? In Trusting Doctors, Jonathan Imber attributes the development of patients' faith in doctors to the inspiration and ... Read more

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  • Clinical Genomics

    Edited by Shashikant Kulkarni, Somak Roy ...
    Clinical Genomics provides an overview of the various next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies that are currently used in clinical diagnostic laboratories. It presents key bioinformatic challenges and the solutions that must be addressed by clinical genomicists and genomic pathologists, such as specific pipelines for identification of the full range of variants that are clinically important. ... Read more

    $132.79 CAD

  • Is this Cell a Human Being?

    Exploring the Status of Embryos, Stem Cells and Human-Animal Hybrids

    Edited by Antoine Suarez, Joachim Huarte ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The central question of this book is whether or not particular cell entities of human origin ought to be considered human beings. The answer is crucial for making moral decisions for or against research and experimentation. Experts in the field discuss the production of embryonic-like pluripotent stem cells by altered nuclear transfer, parthenogenesis and reprogramming of adult somatic cells. They ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD