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Ubel  \nBioethics: Ancient Themes in Contemporary Issues edited by Mark G. Kuczewski and Ronald Polansky The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy  \nedited by Suzanne Holland, Laurie Zoloth, and Karen Lebacqz Engendering International Health: The Challenge of Equity edited by Gita Sen, Asha George, and Piroska Östlin  \nSelf-Trust and Reproductive Autonomy  \nCarolyn McLeod What Genes Can’t Do Lenny Moss  \nWhat Genes Can’t Do  \nLenny Moss  \nA Bradford Book The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England  \n© 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher.  \nThis book was set in Sabon by SNP Best-set Typesetter Ltd., Hong Kong and was printed and bound in the United States of America.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nMoss, Lenny.  \nWhat genes can’t do / Lenny Moss.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(Basic bioethics)“A Bradford Book”  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 0-262-13411-X  \n1. Genetics—Philosophy. I. Title. II. Series.  \nQH430 .M674 2002  \n660.6¢5—dc21  \n2001056298  \nContents  \nSeries Foreword ix  \nAcknowledgments xi  \nIntroduction xiii  \n1 Genesis of the Gene 1  \n2 The Rhetoric of Life and the Life of Rhetoric 51  \n3 A Critique of Pure (Genetic) Information 75  \n4 Dialectics of Disorder: Normalization and Pathology as Process 117  \n5 After the Gene 183  \nNotes 199  \nReferences 205  \nIndex 217  \nSeries Foreword  \nWe are pleased to present the sixth volume in the series Basic Bioethics. The series presents innovative book-length manuscripts in bioethics to abroad audience and introduces seminal scholarly manuscripts, state-ofthe-art reference works, and textbooks. Such broad areas as the philosophy of medicine, advancing genetics and biotechnology, end-of-life care, health and social policy, and the empirical study of biomedical life will be engaged.  \nGlenn McGee Arthur Caplan  \nBasic Bioethics Series Editorial Board Tod S. Chambers  \nCarl Elliot  \nSusan Dorr Goold Mark Kuczewski Herman Saatkamp  \nAcknowledgments  \nThe following individuals contributed to the realization of this work and have my everlasting gratitute: Mina Bissell, Paddy Blanchette, Jeff Botkin, Nancy Burke, Candace Brower, Andrew Cooper, Caroline Damsky, Mary Davis, Alexis Kurland Deeds, Eric Kurland Deeds, Bert Dreyfus, Brian Eden, Arthur Fine, Paul Griffiths, Joseph Heath, David Hull, Kuni Kaneko, Karin Klein, Elizabeth Lloyd, Ed Manier, Thomas McCarthy, Paul Millea, Leslie Mulligan, John Opitz, Susan Oyama, Beverly Packard, Gordon Parry, Bill Ramsey, Bob Richards, Kate Ryan, Phil Sloan, John Stubbs, Suzanne Tronier, Steve Watson, Steve Weinstein, and Bill Wimsatt. Extra-special thanks go to Angela Alston, Carolyn Gray Anderson, David Depew, Steve Downes, Sabrina Haake, Glenn McGee, Bob Perlman, and Harry Rubin. A portion of this research was supported by funding from the ELSI program through the Center for Genetic Science in Society at the University of Utah.  \nIntroduction  \nThere can be little doubt that the idea of “the gene” has been the central organizing theme of twentieth century biology. And biology, especially since the inception of its molecular revolution of the 1940s and 1950s, has become increasingly influential in academic venues, including philosophy, public life and policy, medicine and the health sciences generally, and in everyday self-understanding. 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