Coding for change: The power of the human genome to transform the American health insurance system From: American Journal of Law and Medicine | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: Geetter, Jennifer S | Copyright American Society of Law and Medicine, Incorporated 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

I. INTRODUCTION

Truthfully, we are fearfully and wonderfully made. - Samuel J. Holmes

While science does advance steadily over time, occasionally a scientific breakthrough occurs that does not merely augment current scientific explanations and understandings, but instead radically redirects the focus of the scientific inquiry, fundamentally reconfigures our conception of our world and community, and threatens our existing social and moral conventions. We are currently experien...

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