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

Reilly, Philip R

 
9780879698317: The Strongest Boy in the World: How Genetic Information Is Reshaping Our Lives
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ISBN 10 : 0879698314 ISBN 13 : 9780879698317
Editeur : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press,U.S., 2008

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

About the author: Philip R. Reilly is CEO of Interleukin Genetics, Inc. in Waltham, Massachusetts. From 1990 to 2000 he was the Executive Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center for Mental Retardation, Inc. Dr. Reilly has held faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School, Brandeis University, and Tufts University School of Medicine. For three years he was member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Human Genetics. He has twice (2000, 2003) served as President of the American Society of Law, Medicine, & Ethics, a not-for-profit organization located in Boston. He has served on many national committees chartered to explore public policy issues raised by advances in genetics and is frequently asked to comment on these topics in the national media. He is the author of six books and has published more than 100 articles.

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Éditeur
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press,U.S.
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0879698314
ISBN 13 
9780879698317
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
300
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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