Reviews The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine by Nathaniel Comfort Share this: Share via email (Opens in new window) Email Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to print (Opens in new window) Print By Science News October 19, 2012 at 11:06 am A historian finds parallels between the 19th century eugenics movement and the rise of modern human genetics. Yale Univ., 2012, 316 p., $35