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Social and psychological issues associated with the new genetics
Author(s) -
Sally Macintyre
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
philosophical transactions - royal society. biological sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.753
H-Index - 272
eISSN - 1471-2970
pISSN - 0962-8436
DOI - 10.1098/rstb.1997.0090
Subject(s) - evolutionary biology , genetics , biology , human evolutionary genetics , psychology , genome , gene
This paper discusses two prevailing views--optimistic and pessimistic--about the potential benefits and risks arising from developments in human genetics and argues that we do not yet have enough evidence to assess which elements (if any) of either view are likely to be correct.

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