The practices of human genetics / edited by Michael Fortun and Everett Mendelsohn.

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1999], ©1999.

xiv, 216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

A modern biological determinism: the violence initiative, the human genome project, and the new eugenics / Garland E. Allen -- Projecting speed genomics / Michael Fortun -- The practices of producing meaning in bioinformatics / Joan H. Fujimura -- Circulating mice and viruses: the Jackson Memorial Laboratory, the National Cancer Institute, and the genetics of breast cancer, 1930-1965 / Jean-Paul Guadilliere -- The automated laboratory: the generation and replication of work in molecular genetics / Peter Keating, Camille Limoges, Alberto Cambrioso -- Hans Nachscheim, a human geneticist under national socialism and the question of freedom of science / Ute Deichmann -- Good genes and bad genes: DNA in popular culture / Dorothy Nelkin, M. Susan Lindee -- Making decisions about someone else's offspring: geneticists and reproductive technology / Simone Bateman Novaes -- PKU Screening: competing agendas, converging stories / Diane B. Paul -- From butterflies to blood: human genetics in the United Kingdom

Includes bibliographic references