Genetic prophecy : beyond the double helix / Zsolt Harsanyi, Richard Hutton.

  • Harsanyi, Zsolt, 1944-
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[1981], ©1981
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Credit: Genetic prophecy : beyond the double helix / Zsolt Harsanyi, Richard Hutton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AUTHORS' NOTE In any collaboration, there is a tendency for those outside the process to assign roles to the participants, to assume, for instance, that the scientist did the thinking, the writer did the writing, and that a collaborative caste system was etched in stone. That is not the case with this book. One of us came to this project as a geneticist, the other as a professional ob¬ server of the genetic revolution. Roles, as they may be per¬ ceived from without, never existed. Every idea, every phrase, every nugget of information was thrown into the communal stew and blended with the rest, until it has become impossi¬ ble for us—much less for anyone else—to separate our con¬ tributions. This book is, in short, a true collaboration; the re¬ sponsibility for its content rests with both of us, equally. * * * * Our deepest gratitude to those who helped us throughout our work. We wish to thank especially Susan Allison and Noel Gunther, for their careful, constructive criticism and their enthusiasm for tearing apart chapters that we had so painstakingly created; Marianne Harsanyi, for countless in¬ sights into the medical implications of genetic prophecy; [ vii ]