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This listenable review covers the climb of medical genetics through days gone by century, and the eugenic impulses it has motivated. Nicholas Gillham reviews the linkages between genes and disease, ethnic communities' differential susceptibility to genetic qualities and disorders, customized medicine, and essential social and ethical issues arising from the field's improvement. Includes:
- How genetic diseases arise and why some ethnic communities are more vunerable to specific disorders
- How experts are trying to identify the genetic factors underlying multifaceted conditions like diabetes and cardiovascular disease
- The value and constraints of genetic information in reduction, treatment, and cure
- The complex, subtle interrelationships between genes and cancer tumor
- What science knows - and doesn't know - about genetics and individual action
- The fraught, controversial history of endeavors to link genes with intelligence
- Gene remedy: what's did the trick and what hasn't
- The potential and serious implications of customized medicine
