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Genetic Alchemysummarizes and clarifies the background of policy and ethical issues, the debates engendered by uncertain risks to researchers and the population at large, and the roles played by scientists involved in one of the most prominent and controversial new technologies, gene splicing. The author, Assistant Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy at Tufts University, brings to the topic his experience on the Cambridge Review Board as it considered the siting of a recombinant DNA research facility, and on the NIH's Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee.Sheldon Krimsky is the author of 'Genetic Alchemy: The Social History of the Recombinant DNA Controversy', published 1984 under ISBN 9780262610384 and ISBN 0262610388.
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