DNA
Subtitle: promise and peril
By: Linda L. McCabe and Edward R.B. McCabe.
Contributors: McCabe, Edward R. B.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520251878
Subjects: Medical genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects; Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects; Genetics, Medical -- ethics; Genetic Engineering -- ethics; Genomics -- ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why genes do not equal destiny; title: What is genomics?; title: Genetic determinism; title: Evolution and deconstruction of human-centered biology; title: Concepts of race and ethnicity; title: Gender is a spectrum, not a dichotomy; title: Genome-based forensics; title: When genes belong to groups and not individuals; title: Genes as commodities : ownership of genes by business interests; title: Genetic discrimination; title: Reproductive technologies; title: Reproductive cloning; title: Therapeutic cloning; title: Gene therapy : can the promise be fulfilled?; title: Genomic medicine; title: Hidden destiny.