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Genetics' dreams in the post genomics era
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 5 (1):73-77 (2002)
Abstract
In this paper I explore the heuristic limits ofhuman genetics, in particular the claim that itis possible to manipulate human germcells in a pre-ordinate way (Gordon, 1999). I arguethat this claim is unrealistic based ongenetic reductionism and a wrong concept ofgenetic diseasesOther Versions
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