Medicine’s Brave New World: Bioengineering and the New Genetics

by Margaret O. Hyde and John F. Setaro, M.D., HS ’86, associate professor of medicine

21st Century Books (Brookfield, Conn.) 2001; 144 pages

The authors present a host of medical breakthroughs and ponder the future of many versions of genetic manipulation to support medical science. Topics include fertility advances, xenotransplantation, stem cell research, cloning, the Human Genome Project and genetic testing. There are also some notes of caution as the authors consider some of the many ethical objections to genetic research.