Genomics and environmental regulation
Subtitle: ethical, legal, and policy issues
By: edited by Richard R. Sharp, Gary E. Marchant, and Jamie A. Grodsky.
Contributors: Sharp, Richard R.; Marchant, Gary Elvin, 1958-; Grodsky, Jamie A.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780801890222
Subjects: Genomics -- Moral and ethical aspects; Environmental health; Genetic toxicology; Genomics -- Law and legislation -- United States; Genomics -- ethics -- United States; Genomics -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States; Environmental Health -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States; Government Regulation -- United States; Public Policy -- United States
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Toxicogenomics and environmental regulation / Gary E. Marchant; title: Addressing genomics needs at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency / Kerry L. Dearfield ... [et al.]; title: Application of genomics for health and environmental safety of chemicals: an industry perspective / Richard D. Phillips; title: Toxicogenomics and the public interest: technical and sociopolitical challenges / John M. Balbus; title: Challenges in applying toxicogenomic data in federal regulatory settings / Lynn L. Bergeson; title: Genetic data and toxic torts: intimations of statistical reductionism / Andrew Askland and Gary E. Marchant; title: Genomics and environmental justice: some preliminary thoughts / Gary E. Marchant and Jamie A. Grodsky; title: Setting air quality standards in the postgenomic era / Gary E. Marchant; title: Genetics and workplace issues / P.A. Schulte; title: Advances in human genome epidemiology: implications for occupational health and disease prevention / Marc Weinstein; title: Occupational health and discrimination issues raised by toxicogenomics in the workplace / Mark A. Rothstein; title: Genetic susceptibility and radiological health and safety / Kenneth L. Mossman; title: Conceptual and normative dimensions of toxicogenomics / Andrea O. Smith and Jason Scott Robert; title: Environmental disease, biomarkers, and the precautionary principle / David B. Resnik; title: Rights and the exceptionally vulnerable / James W. Nickel; title: (Almost) equal protection for genetically susceptible subpopulations: a hybrid regulatory-compensation proposal / Carl Cranor; title: Protecting people in spite of, or thanks to, the veil of ignorance / Adam M. Finkel.