The Strongest Boy in the World: How Genetic Information Is Reshaping Our Lives - Couverture rigide

Reilly, Phillip R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0879698012 ISBN 13 : 9780879698010

Editeur : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press,U.S., 2006

Synopsis

A collection of 20 essays on such topics as human ancestry, race, longevity, intelligence, aging, and disease. This book is a follow-on volume to the successful Abraham Lincoln's DNA and other adventures in Genetics. Phil Reilly uses specific cases to illuminate the science as well as the broad social and ethical issues concerned.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

The Strongest Boy in the World is a wonderful tour of genetics, genomics and stem-cell biology. General readers may find the science a stretch, but the effort will be amply rewarded with a better understanding of some of the most important issues currently facing our society. It isn't that Reilly gives new perspectives, but rather that he presents a rich, fascinating history and a broad view of the science that seasoned geneticists think about every day. Instruction about basic principles of genetics is minimal, with a 'knock-out' mouse being defined in terms of a transgenic mouse, for readers who know what the latter is. Reilly delves into broad fields of biology, society and history, clarifying the idea of 'race', but rather muddying the term 'family'. For the geneticist, Reilly presents a balanced, positive view of ethical and social issues in genetics, and an entertaining background in history, geography and economics, and the way these fields interface with modern genetics and genomics. I've often tried to convince my colleagues across campus that genetics should be a part of every undergraduate's education. No book makes this case more clearly than The Strongest Boy in the World. Nature ...Reilly writes well and avoids being slick and superficial. He believes in an ethical reflection on where science takes us. This combined approach makes the book valuable for courses on science and society or ethics. Teachers will mine a rich vein of anecdotes to use in their lectures, and this volume will be ideal to stimulate class discussion. --The Quarterly Review of Biology

Présentation de l'éditeur

Philip R. Reilly is a physician, geneticist, and a lawyer. He is also a storyteller. His new book, The Strongest Boy in the World: How Genetic Information is Reshaping Our Lives, contains twenty engaging stories, each of which offers the reader a delightful excursion that will expand his worldview. As tour guide, Reilly is passionately committed to ensuring that intriguing discoveries lie around every bend in the road. Whether it is speculating on the impact of genetics on the future of sports, the evolutionary origins of humans, the mysteries of genetic diseases, the similarities between dogs and people, the impact of genetic engineering on what we eat, or the ethical dimensions of stem cell research, Reilly offers up spell binding tales. In each of the twenty chapters, he deftly reviews complex scientific and medical information in a manner that offers the reader the facts necessary to debate the value questions.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0879698012
• ISBN 13: 9780879698010
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 278
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible