Reviews for From the Inside Looking Out: Competing Paradigms of Growing Old

The average rating for From the Inside Looking Out: Competing Paradigms of Growing Old based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-06-30 00:00:00 Tim Gordon This was persuasion pure and simple. Get screened for a genome profile. It's only tens of thousand of dollars. But companies are striving to produce a profile at reduced cost-hence the $1,000 genome. What will this unleash in society? It's possible to locate genes from anything from quick twitching, obesity, to cancer. Will employers deny employment because of a possible condition? Will married couples screen fetuses for defects or neural disease? Will prospective in laws screen a potential fiancée for compatibility? 2017 Lenten Buddy Reading Challenge book #26

Review # 2 was written on 2011-11-25 00:00:00 Gene Fogerty Interesting history of gene sequencing and the trends towards faster cheaper full genome sequencing. Of course the question is now what? Apart from providing an interesting history of the human species, how do we use this knowledge to make life better? Lots of opportunities, but still a technology searching for a problem to solve. Somehow this will be useful in helping target medicines to appropriate patients.