Discusses what is going on in human genetic research and the misinterpretations of those discoveries.

Before I start -- On breads, Bibles and blueprints -- Prediction and uncertainty -- On authority -- Inventing it -- Seeing it -- The science and politics of race -- Through a crystal, darkly -- (American) racism -- For whom the bell curves -- Rates and races -- The Human Genome Diversity Project -- A tale of two diseases -- The quest -- From the breast -- Cancer is (not) a genetic disease -- Understanding cancer -- Early detection -- Breast cancer -- Contradictions -- The gates of life -- Spoiling the pregnancy -- Get a map -- Beyond prenatal diagnosis -- Now you can choose! -- Determination -- On order -- In search of imagination -- Existential orphanhood and identity politics : on Jews, dwarfs and gays -- After I finish.