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Genetic maps and human imaginations

by Barbara Katz Rothman

Barbara Katz Rothman provides an essential tour through what is happening on the genetics front and the earthshaking ramifications. This articulate, funny, and extremely provocative argument against bad science is also a passionate defense of the fact that human beings are social beings who grow into who they are, not "in large part ready made from the factory," as one recent popular book on genetics put it. In this book, Katz Rothman uses the texture of real life as woven through time - giving birth, raising a black child, family stories, working with midwives, her own family's cancer...

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