Genetics and ethics
Subtitle: an interdisciplinary study
By: edited by Gerard Magill
Contributors: Magill, Gerard, 1951-
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Saint Louis University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Saint Louis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects; Human genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-341) and indexes
Table of contents: value: Introduction: the development of ethics discourse on genetics / Gerard Magill and John Brehany; value: Policy challenges: ethical, legal, and social implications of genetics / Ellen Wright Clayton; value: The genetics revolution; value: can the law cope? / Sheila A.M. McLean; value: Genetics, investment, and business: organizational ethics for genomics companies / Gerard Magill; value: Geneticization: the sociocultural impact of gentechnology / Henk A.M.J. ten Have; value: Genes and gender: an egalitarian analysis / Mary Briody Mahowald; value: Using human dignity to constrain genetic research and development: when it works and when it does not / Jan C. Heller; value: Engineering our grace: an old idea and new genetic technologies / Brent Waters; value: The impact of genetics and genomics on views of aging / David Schlessinger; value: Genetic labels and long-term-care policies: a winning or losing proposition for patients? / Ruth Purtilo; value: The challenge of advances in genetic medicine for the biomedical and organizational ethics of health care delivery / Dennis Brodeur; value: The challenge of physician education in genetics / Carol Bayley; value: Pharmacogenetics, genetic screening, and health care / Ruth Chadwick; value: Ethical aspects of prenatal screening and diagnosis / Norman M. Ford; value: Gene "therapy": a test case for research with children / M. Therese Lysaught; value: Science, ethics, and policy: relating human genomics to embryonic stem-cell research and therapeutic cloning / Gerard Magill