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Author: Phillip R. Reilly
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press,U.S.
Imprint: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press,U.S.
Dimensions:
Width: 16.30cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.80cm
Weight: 0.710kg
ISBN: 9780879698010
ISBN 10: 0879698012
Pages: 278
Publication Date: 11 May 2006
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
The Strongest Boy in the World is a wonderful tour of genetics, genomics and stem-cell biology. General readers may find the science a stretch, but the effort will be amply rewarded with a better understanding of some of the most important issues currently facing our society. It isn't that Reilly gives new perspectives, but rather that he presents a rich, fascinating history and a broad view of the science that seasoned geneticists think about every day. Instruction about basic principles of genetics is minimal, with a 'knock-out' mouse being defined in terms of a transgenic mouse, for readers who know what the latter is. Reilly delves into broad fields of biology, society and history, clarifying the idea of 'race', but rather muddying the term 'family'. For the geneticist, Reilly presents a balanced, positive view of ethical and social issues in genetics, and an entertaining background in history, geography and economics, and the way these fields interface with modern genetics and genomics. I've often tried to convince my colleagues across campus that genetics should be a part of every undergraduate's education. No book makes this case more clearly than The Strongest Boy in the World. Nature ...Reilly writes well and avoids being slick and superficial. He believes in an ethical reflection on where science takes us. This combined approach makes the book valuable for courses on science and society or ethics. Teachers will mine a rich vein of anecdotes to use in their lectures, and this volume will be ideal to stimulate class discussion. -- The Quarterly Review of Biology
Author Information
About the author: Philip R. Reilly is CEO of Interleukin Genetics, Inc. in Waltham, Massachusetts. From 1990 to 2000 he was the Executive Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center for Mental Retardation, Inc. Dr. Reilly has held faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School, Brandeis University, and Tufts University School of Medicine. For three years he was member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Human Genetics. He has twice (2000, 2003) served as President of the American Society of Law, Medicine, & Ethics, a not-for-profit organization located in Boston. He has served on many national committees chartered to explore public policy issues raised by advances in genetics and is frequently asked to comment on these topics in the national media. He is the author of six books and has published more than 100 articles.
