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Genetics and ethics : an interdisciplinary study / edited by Gerard Magill.

Contributor(s): Magill, Gerard, 1951-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Saint Louis, Mo. : Saint Louis University Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Edition: First editionDescription: xiv, 366 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0965292975 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780965292979 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects | Human genetics -- Moral and ethical aspectsDDC classification: 174/.296042 LOC classification: QH438.7 | .G445 2004Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : the development of ethics discourse on genetics / Gerard Magill and John Brehany -- Policy challenges : ethical, legal, and social implications of genetics / Ellen Wright Clayton -- The genetics revolution : can the law cope? / Sheila A.M. McLean -- Genetics, investment, and business : organizational ethics for genomics companies / Gerard Magill -- Geneticization : the sociocultural impact of gentechnology / Henk A.M.J. ten Have -- Genes and gender : an egalitarian analysis / Mary Briody Mahowald -- Using human dignity to constrain genetic research and development : when it works and when it does not / Jan C. Heller -- Engineering our grace : an old idea and new genetic technologies / Brent Waters -- The impact of genetics and genomics on views of aging / David Schlessinger.
Genetic labels and long-term-care policies : a winning or losing proposition for patients? / Ruth Purtilo -- The challenge of advances in genetic medicine for the biomedical and organizational ethics of health care delivery / Dennis Brodeur -- The challenge of physician education in genetics / Carol Bayley -- Pharmacogenetics, genetic screening, and health care / Ruth Chadwick -- Ethical aspects of prenatal screening and diagnosis / Norman M. Ford -- Gene "therapy" : a test case for research with children / M. Therese Lysaught -- Science, ethics, and policy : relating human genomics to embryonic stem-cell research and therapeutic cloning / Gerard Magill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the development of ethics discourse on genetics / Gerard Magill and John Brehany -- Policy challenges : ethical, legal, and social implications of genetics / Ellen Wright Clayton -- The genetics revolution : can the law cope? / Sheila A.M. McLean -- Genetics, investment, and business : organizational ethics for genomics companies / Gerard Magill -- Geneticization : the sociocultural impact of gentechnology / Henk A.M.J. ten Have -- Genes and gender : an egalitarian analysis / Mary Briody Mahowald -- Using human dignity to constrain genetic research and development : when it works and when it does not / Jan C. Heller -- Engineering our grace : an old idea and new genetic technologies / Brent Waters -- The impact of genetics and genomics on views of aging / David Schlessinger.

Genetic labels and long-term-care policies : a winning or losing proposition for patients? / Ruth Purtilo -- The challenge of advances in genetic medicine for the biomedical and organizational ethics of health care delivery / Dennis Brodeur -- The challenge of physician education in genetics / Carol Bayley -- Pharmacogenetics, genetic screening, and health care / Ruth Chadwick -- Ethical aspects of prenatal screening and diagnosis / Norman M. Ford -- Gene "therapy" : a test case for research with children / M. Therese Lysaught -- Science, ethics, and policy : relating human genomics to embryonic stem-cell research and therapeutic cloning / Gerard Magill.

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