The history of contemporary genetic counseling, including its medical, personal, and ethical dimensions. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the

For sixty years genetic counselors have served as the messengers of important information about the risks, realities, and perceptions of genetic conditions. Mor

"The author argues that postwar clinical professionals resisted adopting more positive, accepting, and sociopolitical perspectives on people with disabilities,

How did a disease of marginal public health significance acquire paradigmatic status in public health and genetics? In a lifetime of practice, most physicians w

Dr Francis S. Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists, working at the cutting edge of the study of DNA, the code of