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How to read for current developments in human genetics relevant to justice

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ConleyDalton and FletcherJason, The Genome Factor: What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals about Ourselves, Our History and the Future (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017), 296 pages. ISBN: 978069116474. $29.95.
MeloniMaurizio, Political Biology: Science and Social Values in Human Heredity from Eugenics to Epigenetics (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), 284 pages. ISBN: 9781137377715. $109.99.
SolomonScott, Future Humans: Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution (New Haven: CT: Yale University Press, 2016), 240 pages. ISBN: 9780300208719. $20.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2018

Benjamin Gregg
Benjamin Gregg*
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Austin/Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, UK
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Correspondence: Benjamin Gregg, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Government, 1 University Station A 1800, Austin, TX 78712. Email: bgregg@austin.utexas.edu
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human genetic engineeringpolitical theorypublic policygene/environment entwinementsocial injustices
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , Fall 2018 , pp. 262 - 277
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