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Author: Robert L. Klitzman, M.D. (, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, and Director of the Masters of Bioethics Program at Columbia University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.70cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 23.60cm
Weight: 0.635kg
ISBN: 9780199837168
ISBN 10: 0199837163
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 15 March 2012
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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<br>In Am I My Genes?, the psychiatrist and ethicist Dr. Robert L. Klitzman plunges readers into the world of genomic medicine as it exists today: a barely mapped terrain of immense overlapping uncertainties...this book should make compelling reading for anyone considering genetic testing for these or any other conditions: It provides an instant community of fellow travelers along with a sophisticated moderator. <br>-Abigail Zuger, M.D., New York Times<p><br> Am I My Genes? should be required reading for students of genetic counseling--and for people facing the challenges of genomic health in their own lives. -- Michael A. Goldman, Science Magazine<p><br>
In Am I My Genes?, the psychiatrist and ethicist Dr. Robert L. Klitzman plunges readers into the world of genomic medicine as it exists today: a barely mapped terrain of immense overlapping uncertainties...this book should make compelling reading for anyone considering genetic testing for these or any other conditions: It provides an instant community of fellow travelers along with a sophisticated moderator. -Abigail Zuger, M.D., New York Times Am I My Genes? should be required reading for students of genetic counseling--and for people facing the challenges of genomic health in their own lives. -- Michael A. Goldman, Science Magazine The greatest strength of the book is the detail and nuance it offers based on in-depth interviews andKlitzman's careful parsing of the different issues the interviewees face.... As Klitzman concedes, he has raised more questions than [he has] wholly answered. But that is his goal: to illuminate the wide range of complexities and challenges that genetics can pose, to help ready us--as individuals and as a broader society-- for the onslaught of genetic information that is fast approaching, whether we want it or not (321). Klitzman has succeeded in brightly illuminating those challenges. -- Sonia M. Suter, GeorgeWashington University Law School, The American Journal of Bioethics The book provides a novel window into the world of regular people facing unprecedented problems in the new world of genetic technologies, and the author is correct in noting that we have a lot to learn from these pioneers. -- DOODY'S
<br>In Am I My Genes?, the psychiatrist and ethicist Dr. Robert L. Klitzman plunges readers into the world of genomic medicine as it exists today: a barely mapped terrain of immense overlapping uncertainties...this book should make compelling reading for anyone considering genetic testing for these or any other conditions: It provides an instant community of fellow travelers along with a sophisticated moderator. <br>-Abigail Zuger, M.D., New York Times<p><br> Am I My Genes? should be required reading for students of genetic counseling--and for people facing the challenges of genomic health in their own lives. -- Michael A. Goldman, Science Magazine<p><br> The greatest strength of the book is the detail and nuance it offers based on in-depth interviews andKlitzman's careful parsing of the different issues the interviewees face.... As Klitzman concedes, he has raised more questions than [he has] wholly answered. But that is his goal: to illuminate the wide range of complexities and challenges <br>that genetics can pose, to help ready us--as individuals and as a broader society-- for the onslaught of genetic information that is fast approaching, whether we want it or not (321). Klitzman has succeeded in brightly illuminating those challenges. -- Sonia M. Suter, GeorgeWashington University Law School, The American Journal of Bioethics<p><br> The book provides a novel window into the world of regular people facing unprecedented problems in the new world of genetic technologies, and the author is correct in noting that we have a lot to learn from these pioneers. -- DOODY'S<p><br>
Author Information
Robert Klitzman is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and the Director of the Masters of Bioethics Program at Columbia University. He co-founded and for five years co-directed the Columbia University Center for Bioethics, and is the Director of the Ethics and Policy Core of the HIV Center. He is the author of When Doctors Become Patients, A Year-long Night: Tales of a Medical Internship, In a House of Dreams and Glass: Becoming a Psychiatrist, and other works.
