Book ID: CBB000770167

The Strongest Boy in the World: How Genetic Information Is Reshaping Our Lives (2006)

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Reilly, Philip R. (Author)


Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: xvi + 278 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Lindee, Susan (2006) Review of "The Strongest Boy in the World: How Genetic Information Is Reshaping Our Lives". Journal of the History of Biology (p. 810). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Comfort, Nathaniel C.
Dingel, Molly J.
Emslie, Carol
Everson, Theodore William
García-Sancho, Miguel
Gausemeier, Bernd
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Foundations of Science
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Publishers
University of Kansas
University of Toronto
Harvard University Press
Perseus
Yale University Press
Troubador Publishing
Concepts
Human genetics
Hereditary diseases
Molecular biology
Medicine
Genomics
Eugenics
People
Foucault, Michel
Lehmann, Hermann
Perutz, Max Ferdinand
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century, early
21st century
20th century
19th century
Places
Canada
Argentina
Edinburgh (Scotland)
Institutions
Human Genome Project
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