The Book of Life: A Personal and Ethical Guide to Race, Normality and the Human Gene Study

by Barbara Katz Rothman

"This is an exciting book. Its plea that genetic theory be integrated into social thought-rather than the other way around-is wonderfully lucid and well informed. A pleasure to read." --Vivian Gornick, author of The End of the Novel of Love

Genres: Nonfiction

276 pages, Paperback

First published April 19, 2001

Reviews

[Lillian]

For a woman who is a science writer, she certainly has an antagonistic and hostile view of science. I don't think she really understands or is capable of transmitting scientific information. I did not find her anecdotal descriptions and conclusions drawn from her own family life, as a Jew and a mother of a biracial child appropriate or informative. She should keep to the facts and statistical information or just write an autobiography.

[Kevin Gee]

her sciences can be disputed ,with more advanced methods..