Synopses & Reviews
Genetic Alchemy summarizes and clarifies the background of policy and ethical issues, the debates engendered by uncertain risks to researchers and the population at large, and the roles played by scientists involved in one of the most prominent and controversial new technologies, gene splicing. The author, Assistant Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy at Tufts University, brings to the topic his experience on the Cambridge Review Board as it considered the siting of a recombinant DNA research facility, and on the NIH's Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee.
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"Krimsky is an excellent social historian... One of the unique attributes of the Krimsky approach is his application of the principles of formal logic to many of the public speeches, letters, testimonies, etc. issued by participants in the course of the controversy... [He] provides a reasoned analysis of such issues in order to enable the reader to understand them better and to make up his or her own mind about the best way to base public policy on them."
—Contemporary Sociology
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"This book should have a central place on reading lists for university courses on science and society, especially those that are oriented toward policy formation. It should also be required reading for anyone concerned about the place of science in our lives."
—Science Books and Films
Synopsis
Genetic Alchemy summarizes and clarifies the background of policy and ethical issues, the debates engendered by uncertain risks to researchers and the population at large, and the roles played by scientists involved in one of the most prominent and controversial new technologies, gene splicing. The author, Assistant Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy at Tufts University, brings to the topic his experience on the Cambridge Review Board as it considered the siting of a recombinant DNA research facility, and on the NIH's Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee.
Synopsis
Genetic Alchemy summarizes and clarifies the background of policy and ethical issues, the debates engendered by uncertain risks to researchers and the population at large, and the roles played by scientists involved in one of the most prominent and controversial new technologies, gene splicing.