"This wide-ranging, international collection considers many of the practical, ethical and political questions raised by the proliferation of genetic research and testing around the world...Almost all of the chapters deal in a sophisticated way with questions about how ideas of identity, race, and kinship are being shaped by their interaction with genetic technologies and the way those technologies are being interpreted." - Contemporary Sociology. A Journal of Reviews

"Overall, the book successfully highlights the complex and often contradictory nature of the relationship between...