Genetic Testing - Yashon, Ronnee

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Résumé :
It is hard to avoid hearing about genetic testing. It is advertised, discussed, debated, and offered to patients. Some are over the counter, such as paternity testing, testing for risk for diabetes and others. Others are offered by private companies and still others by drug companies, These tests may or may not show a distinct answer, so it important for patients to understand these results. Early in 1920s a Eugenics movement began in the United States, courts decided which person had undesirable traits and would be sterilized so they could not pass these traits to their children. The idea here was to create a population with better genes (therefore healthier and richer). Families who were chosen received awards and people began to see the importance of genetics. But little did they know how it would EXPLODE! This book will look at genetic testing as it applies today and how the serious decisions that it demands, cannot be ignored.

Biographie:
Ronnee Yashon is a nationally known expert in teaching genetics, ethics, and the law on all levels. She has a background in teaching in the high school, undergraduate, graduate, and law school levels. Her case study methodology for introducing bioethics and law in the curriculum uses simple, personalized, and current scenarios that involve the students in decision making. Ronnee has presented this case study method all over the country and, and she has six case study books.

Michael R. Cummings is the author or coauthor of several leading college textbooks, including Human Heredity Principles and Issues, Concepts of Genetics and Essentials of Genetics. He was a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Chicago for over 25 years. While there, he was recognized as an outstanding faculty member and mentored many junior faculty in undergraduate teaching. He now teaches general biology, cell biology, and genetics at the Illinois Institute of Technology....