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Genetics : science, ethics, and public policy : a reader / edited by Thomas A. Shannon.

Contributor(s): Shannon, Thomas A. (Thomas Anthony), 1940-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Readings in bioethics: Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub., [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: xii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0742532380 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780742532380 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects | BioethicsDDC classification: 576.5 LOC classification: QH438.7 | .G465 2005Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Biotechnology and the threat of a posthuman future / Francis Fukuyama -- Crossing species boundaries / Jason Scott Robert and Françoise Baylis -- Genetic counseling and the disabled : feminism examines the stance of those who stand at the gate / Annette Patterson and Martha Satz -- The natural father : genetic paternity testing, marriage, and fatherhood / Gregory E. Kaebnick -- Ethics of preimplantation diagnosis for a woman destined to develop early-onset Alzheimer disease / Dena Towner and Roberta Springer Loewy -- Procreation for donation : the moral and political permissibility of "having a child to save a child" / Mark P. Aulisio, Thomas May, and Geoffrey D. Block -- Population screening in the age of genomic medicine / Muin J. Khoury, Linda L. McCabe, and Edward R.B. McCabe -- Navigating race in the market for human gametes / Hawley Fogg-Davis -- How can you patent genes? / Rebecca S. Eisenberg -- Monitoring stem cell research / President's Council on Bioethics -- Nuclear transplantation, embryonic stem cells, and the potential for cell therapy / Konrad Hochedlinger and Rodulf Jaenisch.

"A Sheed & Ward book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Biotechnology and the threat of a posthuman future / Francis Fukuyama -- Crossing species boundaries / Jason Scott Robert and Françoise Baylis -- Genetic counseling and the disabled : feminism examines the stance of those who stand at the gate / Annette Patterson and Martha Satz -- The natural father : genetic paternity testing, marriage, and fatherhood / Gregory E. Kaebnick -- Ethics of preimplantation diagnosis for a woman destined to develop early-onset Alzheimer disease / Dena Towner and Roberta Springer Loewy -- Procreation for donation : the moral and political permissibility of "having a child to save a child" / Mark P. Aulisio, Thomas May, and Geoffrey D. Block -- Population screening in the age of genomic medicine / Muin J. Khoury, Linda L. McCabe, and Edward R.B. McCabe -- Navigating race in the market for human gametes / Hawley Fogg-Davis -- How can you patent genes? / Rebecca S. Eisenberg -- Monitoring stem cell research / President's Council on Bioethics -- Nuclear transplantation, embryonic stem cells, and the potential for cell therapy / Konrad Hochedlinger and Rodulf Jaenisch.

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