A giant step for medicine, or the most serious threat to our individual freedoms yet? From the start, the American Human Genome Project has given rise to intense in-fighting and intrigue within the scientific establishment, the investment world and every branch of US government. This book provides an account of the ethically and politically complex scientific undertaking and embraces political and social issues.

Table of Contents

The Territory, and the Map. In the Beginning. Maps, Splices, and a ''Moratorium.'' Momentum. Small Science, Big Science. ''Owning'' the International Genome. Collaboration, Controversy, and Computers. The Forms of Things Unknown. Of Ethics and Trust. Selected Bibliography. Glossary of Terms. Index.