Controlling Our Destinies : Historical, Philosophical, Ethical, and Theological Perspectives on the Human Genome Project (Studies in Science and the Humanities from the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values)

This work considers the complex, far reaching issues surrounding the Human Genome Project - an international scientific enterprise aimed at attaining a complete sequence and locator map of the human genetic structure by the year 2005 - offering the elimination of genetic abnormalities and diseases.