Great copy, ex library with the usual markings and stickers. Mylar dustjacket shows moderate shelf and edgewear. Price written on inside front free endpaper, binding is tight. Pages and text clean with no writing or tears. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng.

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Titel: The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and Perils of Medical Enhancement
Verlag: New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pantheon Books
Ver�ffentlichungsdatum: 2003
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0679439803
ISBN-13: 9780679439806
Bindung: Hardcover
Ausgabe: 1st Edition.
Zustand: Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good

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Explores the risks and benefits of the pursuit of biological perfection through the use of drugs, hormones, and other procedures, discussing the costs--both financial and otherwise--when dissatisfaction with one's body leads to the search for a medical enhancement or "cure." 22,500 first printing.

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Sheila M. Rothman is Professor of Public Health at Columbia University. Her books include Living in the Shadow of Death. Her articles in the New York Review of Books and other periodicals, often cowritten with David Rothman, address human rights and medicine. She is now investigating the social and ethical implications of linking race and ethnicity to genetic disease. David J. Rothman is Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and History at Columbia University. His books have explored the history of prisons and mental hospitals and the impact of bioethics and law on medicine. He has just been named president of the Institute on Medicine as a Profession, funded by George Soros.

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