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100			_aBonnie Rochman
245			_aThe gene machine : How genetic technologies are changing the way we have kids--and the kids we have
260			_a New York _bScientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux _c2017
300			_a 272 pages ; 24 cm
500			_a"A researched exploration of the promises and vulnerabilities of having children in an age of genetic tests and interventions considers key scientific, technological and political factors while sharing the stories of men and women struggling to understand the range of the tests and their revelations, "--NoveList.
505			_a Introduction -- How the Jews beat Tay-Sachs : screening for disease before pregnancy -- Playing God : how preimplantation genetic diagnosis is rewriting family history -- The other scarlet "A" : abortion's relationship to genetic testing -- Silencing a gene : the future of Down syndrome -- What do parents want to know? : grappling with variants of unknown significance -- The right to an open future : navigating the return of results -- How to hunt a zebra : ending the rare-disease diagnostic odyssey -- The genie in the bottle : sequencing newborn babies.
650			_a Medical genetics. Medical genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects. Human genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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