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"Highly recommended for a wide variety of audiences in addition to physicians and medical students... Fortunately, some of Childs's concepts are being applied to medical teaching already, but I know of no better synthesis in one book." -- Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
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Describes the integration of genetics and medicine in a historical context, exploring the ways in which research in genetics exposes medicine to new ways to think about disease, its causes, and its pathogenesis. Discusses medical thinking and outlines a logic of disease, then covers species identity, adaptive flexibility, descent with modification, reproduction and continuity, and the Human Genome Project. The author is a professor at The Johns Hopkins University. Of interest to medical educators, medical geneticists, physicians, and students. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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