Human Genetic Engineering A Guide for Activists, Skeptics, and the Very Perplexed

by Shanks, Pete

• ISBN13: 9781560256953
• ISBN10: 1560256958
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-20
• Publisher: Bold Type Books

Summary

The debate over human Genetic Engineering (GE) is about to go mainstream. Not as a one-day wonder about cloning or a theological disagreement about embryos, but as a major political issue, driven in part by a grassroots movement of opposition. Human Genetic Engineering is a highly readable and entertaining guide. It explains in accessible language for a popular audience the essential questions that will arise in the future debates: What is human GE? Will it work? What perspectives should we remember? Who is doing what, and why?

Author Biography

Pete Shanks has done freelance work for the Center for Genetics and Society (CGS) in Oakland, for several years. He is a writer and grassroots political activist, and has produced textbooks for many years. He lives in Oakland, California.

Table of Contents

Crops and Cattle and Fish and . . . People?	1	(16)
The Developing Science of Genetics	17	(32)
Clowns and Cowboys in the Cloning Circus	49	(30)
The Science and Politics of Stem Cells	79	(28)
Selling Human GE	107	(26)
Gene Therapy---``Better than Well''?	133	(24)
Gene Doping in Sports	157	(20)
Eugenics: Learning from the Past	177	(22)
Manipulating Public Opinion	199	(24)
Advocates and Enablers: The People Behind Human GE	223	(32)
Preserving Our Common Humanity	255	(26)
Regulation? What Regulation?	281	(30)
Appendix: Resources	311	(10)
Acknowledgments	321	(2)
Index	323