International Journal of Childbirth Education, December 1st, 2002
INTERNATIONAL FOCUS
Our global society has endeavored to advance, and has placed great personal value on, cultural and racial diversity. Health care providers and educators are pressed to identify and respect that which is different. However, a scientific endeavor has identified our global oneness. The Human Genome Project, an international collaboration funded in the United States by the Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health, is finding that the human race is 99% the same.
Not all of our common genes are perfect. Chromosomes are tightly bound bands of three million base...
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