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Podcast: New Books in Technology
Episode: Alexandra Minna Stern, āTelling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in Americaā (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)
Description: Due in part to lobbying efforts on behalf of the human genome project, human genes tend to be thought of in light of the presentāgenetic components of human disease and differential risks associated with genetic individualsābefore the future, what gets passed on to later generations. However, public understanding of genetics did not merely radiate from laboratories, as Alexandra Minna Sternās book, Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America (Johns Hopkins University, 2012) shows. Before the age of genetic sequencing and mass-produced tests, physicians from various specialties provided genetic counseling on an ad-hoc basis, most of which...