Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; 1 Social Dimensions of the Human Genome Mapping Project: An Introduction; 2 Transitional Science and the Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre; 3 How Weak Bonds Stick? Genetic Diagnosis Between the Laboratory and the Clinic; 4 Information Technology as an Instrument of Genetics; 5 Exploring Organisational Issues in British Genomic Research; 6 Eugenics Here and Now; 7 Moral and Legal Consequences for the Fetus/Unborn Child of Medical Technologies Derived from Human Genome Research
8 The American Gene Therapy Industry and the Social Shaping of a New Technology9 Social Criticism and the Human Genome Programme: Some Reflections on the Limits of a Limited Social Science; 10 Signs of Life -- Taking Genetic Literacy Seriously