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- catalog abstract ""The Human Genome Project, the most ambitious biological research program ever undertaken, was born in controversy. Heralded by its more enthusiastic proponents as a quest for the "Holy Grail of biology"--And the key, ultimately, to the treatment of a variety of hereditary diseases - it has as its initial goal the mapping of all the genes in the entire three-billion-letter genetic code embodied in the DNA of a typical human cell. A major factor in the counterarguments of its opponents: its projected cost, estimated to run into the billions of dollars, spread over 10-20 years." "In this firsthand account of the protracted struggle to launch the genome project, a close observer of that process - and sometime participant in it - unravels the tangled scientific and political threads of the story, relying on primary documents gathered even as events unfolded, supplemented by interviews with all the main actors - including the controversial first head of the National Institutes of Health genome effort, Nobel laureate James D. Watson. The result is an absorbing case study in the politics of modern science - focused in this case on a project with far-reaching medical and social implications."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b4940571.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description ""The Human Genome Project, the most ambitious biological research program ever undertaken, was born in controversy. Heralded by its more enthusiastic proponents as a quest for the "Holy Grail of biology"--And the key, ultimately, to the treatment of a variety of hereditary diseases - it has as its initial goal the mapping of all the genes in the entire three-billion-letter genetic code embodied in the DNA of a typical human cell. A major factor in the counterarguments of its opponents: its projected cost, estimated to run into the billions of dollars, spread over 10-20 years." "In this firsthand account of the protracted struggle to launch the genome project, a close observer of that process - and sometime participant in it - unravels the tangled scientific and political threads of the story, relying on primary documents gathered even as events unfolded, supplemented by interviews with all the main actors - including the controversial first head of the National Institutes of Health genome effort, Nobel laureate James D. Watson. The result is an absorbing case study in the politics of modern science - focused in this case on a project with far-reaching medical and social implications."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [366]-403) and index.".
- catalog description "The Scientific Foundation -- Why Genetics? -- Mapping Our Genes -- Of Yeasts and Worms -- Sequence upon Sequence -- Origins of the Genome Project -- Putting Santa Cruz on the Map -- Gilbert and the Holy Grail -- Genes and the Bomb -- Early Skirmishes -- The Support Structure -- The Odd legacy of Howard Hughes -- The NAS Redefines the Project -- The NIH Steps Forward -- Tribes on the Hill -- Honest Jim and the Genome -- Genome Gone Global -- First Stirrings Abroad -- Japan: A Special Case -- Ethical. Legal, and Social Issues -- A New Social Contract -- Bioethics in Government -- Wizards of the Information Age -- DNA Goes to Court -- Exodus : The End of the Beginning.".
- catalog extent "416 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0393035727 :".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : W.W. Norton & Co.,".
- catalog subject "1995 D-741".
- catalog subject "573.2/12 20".
- catalog subject "Chromosome Mapping History.".
- catalog subject "Genome, Human.".
- catalog subject "Human Genome Project.".
- catalog subject "Human gene mapping.".
- catalog subject "QH 445.2 C771g 1994".
- catalog subject "QH445.2 .C66 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Scientific Foundation -- Why Genetics? -- Mapping Our Genes -- Of Yeasts and Worms -- Sequence upon Sequence -- Origins of the Genome Project -- Putting Santa Cruz on the Map -- Gilbert and the Holy Grail -- Genes and the Bomb -- Early Skirmishes -- The Support Structure -- The Odd legacy of Howard Hughes -- The NAS Redefines the Project -- The NIH Steps Forward -- Tribes on the Hill -- Honest Jim and the Genome -- Genome Gone Global -- First Stirrings Abroad -- Japan: A Special Case -- Ethical. Legal, and Social Issues -- A New Social Contract -- Bioethics in Government -- Wizards of the Information Age -- DNA Goes to Court -- Exodus : The End of the Beginning.".
- catalog title "The gene wars : science, politics, and the human genome / Robert Cook-Deegan.".
- catalog type "text".