The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project

Daniel J. Kevles and Leroy Hood (Edited by)

ISBN 10: 0674136462 / ISBN 13: 9780674136465

Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA & London, 1993

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397 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Seller Inventory # 4iiiGh0003

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Title: The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social ...

Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA & London

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: Trade Paperback

Illustrator: Gwen Frankfeldt (Design)

Condition: Like New

Edition: 1st Harvard Univ Press Ppbk Ed/ 2nd Pr.

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Synopsis:

Now and then" writes Lionel Triling "it is possible to observe the moral life in process of revising itself" In this new book he is concerned with such a mutation: the process by which the arduous enterprise of sincerity, of being true to one's self, came to occupy a place of supreme importance in the moral life-and the further shift which finds that place now usurped by the darker and still more strenuous modern ideal of authenticity. Instances range over the whole of Western literature and thought, from Shakespeare to Hegel to Sartre, from Robespierre to R.D. Laing, suggesting the contradictions and ironies to which the ideals of sincerity and authenticity give rise, most especially in contemporary life. Lucid, and brilliantly framed, its view of cultural history will give Sincerity and Authenticity an important place among the works of this distinguished critic.

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"The Code of Codes" is a collective exploration of the substance and possible consequences of the human genome project in relation to ethics, law, and society, as well as to science, technology and medicine. It comprises incisive essays by contributors in a variety of fields, including James D. Watson and Walter Gilbert and the social analysts of science, Dorothy Nelkin and Evelyn Fox Keller.