Genetic information : acquisition, access, and control /
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| Imprint: | New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c1999. |
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| Description: | xi, 335 p. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4259039 |
Table of Contents:
- Eugenics
- 1. Can we Learn from Eugenics?
- 2. Preventing Genetic Impairments: Does it Discriminate against People with Disabilities?
- Genetics and Insurance
- 3. Private Parties, Public Duties? The Shifting Role of Insurance Companies in the Genetics Era
- 4. Coercion Control, and Consequence in Genetic Testing: Views on Insurance among Tested Individuals and the General Public
- 5. Genetic Testing and Adverse Selection in the Market for Life Insurance: Preliminary Findings for the BRCA1 Gene Mutation
- 6. Genetic Engineering and German Health Insurances
- 7. Selling Souls: Ethical Theory and the Commercialisation of Genetic Information
- The Commercialization of Genetic Information
- 8. The Ethics of 21st Century Bioinformatics: Ethical Implications of the Vanishing Distinction between Biological Information and Other Information
- 9. There is Nothing Special about Genetic Information
- 10. High Speed Genetic Testing Technology and the Computerization of the Medical Record
- 11. Ethical Questions in the Pursuit of Genetic Information: Geneticization and BRCA1
- 12. The Ethics of Gene Patenting
- 13. Paradigms of Author/Creator Property Rights in Intellectual Property Law: Ethical Implications for the Acquisition, Access, and Control of Genetic Information
- 14. Regulating the Commercialization of Human Genetics: Can We Address the Big Concerns?
- 15. Ethical Impacts of Human Health-Related Biotechnology in Brazil
- Public Awareness
- 16. Adolescents and Carrier Testing: Attitudes and Ethical Presuppositions
- 17. Downs Syndrome Screening: How Do They Know?
- 18. Public Perspectives of the New Genetics: The Citizens Jury Experiment
- 19. Genetics and Journalism: A View from the United States
- Theoretical Concerns
- 20. Genetic Information and `Genetic Identity'
- 21. Genetic Information and Knowing when you will Die
- 22. Influences of Genetic Testing on a Persons Freedom
- 23. Genetic Knowledge: The Contribution of Sociologies
- 24. Germ-Line gene Therapy: Is the Existing UK Norm Ethically Valid?
- 25. Negotiating the Dilemmas of Prenatal Testing for Genetic Disorders: What is the Virtuous Person to Do?
- 26. Genetic Information: Questions and Worries from an African Background
- 27. Genetic Knowledge in a Just Society
- 28. Biotechnology, Genetic Information, and Community: From Individual Rights to Social Duties
- 29. Linear Destiny and Geometric Fate
- 30. A New Framework for the Use of Genetic Information
- Index