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Sargent, Michael G.

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Biomedicine and the Human Condition : = Challenges, Risks, and Rewards.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Biomedicine and the Human Condition :/
Reminder of title:	Challenges, Risks, and Rewards.
Author:	Sargent, Michael G.
Published:	Cambridge :Cambridge University Press, : 2005.,
Description:	366 p.
[NT 15003449]:	Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Challenges, Risks, and Rewards: Learning to Control Our Biological Fate; Leaving Eden; Challenges, Risks, and Rewards - Introducing a Theme; George Bernard Shaw's Misgivings - Twentieth-Century Optimism; The Great Philanthropists; Investment in the New Biology; Questions from a Sceptical Public; Biomedicine Comes of Age; 2 Learning to Breed Successfully; "In Sorrow Thou Shalt Bring Forth Children"; Changing Reproductive Habits; Surviving Childhood; Birth Control; Assisting Reproduction
[NT 15003449]:	Challenges, Risks, and Rewards - a Summary3 How Life Is Handed On; DNA Transmits Genetic Information; Nucleic Acids and Heredity; Genetic Contributions to a Fertilised Egg; What Is a Gene?; Dark Secrets of DNA; How Life Experience and Heredity Affect Health; Challenges, Risks, and Rewards - a Summary; 4 Cells in Sickness and Health; The Architecture of Cells; A Cell for Every Purpose - Specialists and Stem Cells; Cells Communicating - Growth Factors and Their Rec
Subject:	Health. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511546419Click here to view book
ISBN:	9780511546419 (electronic bk.)

Biomedicine and the Human Condition : = Challenges, Risks, and Rewards.
Sargent, Michael G.

Biomedicine and the Human Condition :Challenges, Risks, and Rewards.[electronic resource]. - Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2005. - 366 p.

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Challenges, Risks, and Rewards: Learning to Control Our Biological Fate; Leaving Eden; Challenges, Risks, and Rewards - Introducing a Theme; George Bernard Shaw's Misgivings - Twentieth-Century Optimism; The Great Philanthropists; Investment in the New Biology; Questions from a Sceptical Public; Biomedicine Comes of Age; 2 Learning to Breed Successfully; "In Sorrow Thou Shalt Bring Forth Children"; Changing Reproductive Habits; Surviving Childhood; Birth Control; Assisting Reproduction

How to avoid disease, how to breed successfully, and how to live to a reasonable age are questions that have long perplexed humankind. This book explores our progress in understanding these challenges, and the risks and rewards of our attempts to find solutions.

Electronic reproduction.

Available via World Wide Web.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780511546419 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

518135
Health.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: R723 .S223 2005eb

Dewey Class. No.: 610.9

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