Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations: The Limits of Science in Understanding Who We Are by Barbara Katz Rothman, W. W. Norton, £17.95, ISBN 0393047032
THERE are some awkward questions that most of us never get round to asking. Who, for example, wants to appear naive by asking what exactly we are doing all this human genome mapping for? A map is a guide: it tells you what is there, says Barbara Katz Rothman, a sociologist at City University in New York. But it also tells you how to go places. Will this map take us where we want to go?…
