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Genetics

Wrestling with Behavioral GeneticsScience, Ethics, and Public Conversationedited by Erik Parens, Audrey R. Chapman, and Nancy Press

An interdisciplinar y group of contributors—human ge-neticists, humanists, social scientists, lawyers, and journal-ists—discuss the ethical and social implications of behav-ioral genetics research and give readers the necessary tools to critically analyze the findings of behavioral geneticists.

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Coming Spring 2007ReprogeneticsLaw, Policy, and Ethical Issuesedited by Lori P. Knowles and Gregory E. Kaebnick

New in Genetics

The Troubled Dream of Genetic MedicineEthnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell DiseaseKeith Wailoo and Stephen Pemberton

With Tay-sachs, cystic fibro-sis, and sickle cell disease as a powerful backdrop, the authors reveal how these maladies—freighted with contentious eth-nic and racial meanings for many Americans—became topics of biological fascination and cru-cibles of social debate.

2006 264 pp.0-8018-8326-1 $21.95 paperback

Williams-Beuren SyndromeResearch, Evaluation, and Treatmentedited by Colleen A. Morris, M.D., Howard M. Lenhoff, Ph.D., and Paul P. Wang, M.D.

This volume of fers concise, comprehensive coverage of WBs research and its clinical implications, including its ge-netics and molecular biology, neurobiological and behavioral traits, and medical problems and their management. each chapter emphasizes how research can be applied to clinical practice.

2006 384 pp. 11 line drawings, 18 halftones0-8018-8212-5 $75.00 hardcover

2005 264 pp.0-8018-8193-5 $50.00 hardcover

2006 376 pp. 9 line drawings, 1 halftone0-8018-8224-9 $50.00 hardcover

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Genetic Ties and the FamilyThe Impact of Paternity Testing on Parents and Childrenedited by Mark A. Rothstein, Thomas H. Murray, Gregory E. Kaebnick, and Mary Anderlik Majumder

experts in history, law, ethics, philosophy, psychology, social work, and sociology explore the tension between biological and social conceptions of parent-age. These essays reflect the changing concepts of parent-hood, along with social factors that heighten conflict, such as single-parent adoption, gay and lesbian parents, child support laws, and new reproductive technologies.

Moments of Truth in Genetic MedicineSusan Lindee

“Captures the complexities of re-search on genetic disease while prompting us to reconsider the distribution of scientific authority and the dynamics of knowledge production.”

—New England Journal of Medicine

2005 288 pp. 1 line drawing, 7 halftones0-8018-8175-7 $40.00 hardcover

Catalog of Teratogenic Agentseleventh editionThomas H. Shepard, M.D., and Ronald J. Lemire, M.D.

2004 552 pp.0-8018-7953-1 $225.00 hardcover

Population GeneticsA Concise Guidesecond editionJohn H. Gillespie

2004 232 pp., 54 line drawings0-8018-8009-2 $29.95 paperback

Genetic Disorders and the FetusDiagnosis, Prevention, and Treatmentfifth editionedited by Aubrey Milunsky, MB.B.Ch., D.Sc., F.R.C.P., F.A.C.M.G., D.C.H.

2004 1,248 pp., 120 illustrations0-8018-7928-0 $225.00 hardcover

Genomic MedicineArticles from the New England Journal of Medicineedited by Alan E. Guttmacher, M.D., Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., and Jeffrey M. Drazen, M.D. with a foreword by elias Zerhouni, M.D.

2004 208 pp., 40 color illustrations0-8018-7979-5 $39.95 paperback

Dangerous Liaisons?When Cultivated Plants Mate with Their Wild RelativesNorman C. Ellstrand

2003 264 pp., 6 illustrations0-8018-8190-0 $29.95 paperback

DwarfismMedical and Psychosocial Aspects of Profound Short StatureBetty M. Adelson foreword by Judith G. hall, o.C., M.D.

“one of the best, most thorough overviews published on dwarfism and related topics.”

—New England Journal of Medicine

2005 368 pp. 48 halftones, 4 line drawings0-8018-8122-6 $30.00 paperback

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Designing Our DescendantsThe Promises and Perils of Genetic Modificationsedited by Audrey R. Chapman and Mark S. Frankel

2003 384 pp.0-8018-7231-6 $32.00 paperback

Conjoined TwinsDevelopmental Malformations and Clinical ImplicationsRowena Spencer, M.D.

2003 496 pp. 52 halftones, 40 line drawings0-8018-7070-4 $85.00 hardcover

The Double-Edged HelixSocial Implications of Genetics in a Diverse Societyedited by Joseph S. Alper, Catherine Ard, Adrienne Asch, Jon Beckwith, Peter Conrad, and Lisa N. Geller

2002 312 pp.0-8018-7926-4 $26.95 paperback

Cracking the GenomeInside the Race to Unlock Human DNAKevin Davies

2002 352 pp.0-8018-7140-9 $19.95 paperback

Fragile X SyndromeDiagnosis, Treatment, and Researchthird editionedited by Randi Jenssen Hagerman, M.D., and Paul J. Hagerman, M.D., Ph.D.

2002 552 pp. 29 halftones, 21 line drawings0-8018-6844-0 $46.95 paperback

Genetic MedicineA Logic of DiseaseBarton Childs, M.D.

1999 344 pp. 7 line drawings0-8018-7442-4 $32.95 paperback

Behavioral GeneticsThe Clash of Culture and Biologyedited by Ronald A. Carson and Mark A. Rothstein with a foreword by Floyd e. Bloom

1999 224 pp., 3 illustrations0-8018-7230-8 $25.00 paperback

Analysis of Human Genetic Linkagethird editionJurg Ott

1999 416 pp. 34 illustrations0-8018-6140-3 $80.00 hardcover

Cultural and Ethnic DiversityA Guide for Genetics Professionalsedited by Nancy L. Fisher, M.D., M.P.H.

1996 288 pp.0-8018-5346-X $57.00 hardcover

Handbook of Human Genetic LinkageJoseph Douglas Terwilliger and Jurg Ott

1994 320 pp.0-8018-4803-2 $80.00 paperback

Mendelian Inheritance in ManA Catalog of Human Genes and Genetic Disorderstwelfth editionVictor A. McKusick, M.D. with the assistance of stylianos e. Antonarakis, M.D., Clair A. Francomano, M.D., orest hurko, M.D., Alan F. scott, ph.D., Moyra smith, M.D., ph.D., David valle, M.D., and others

1998 3,972 pp.0-8018-5742-2 $299.00 hardcover

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