Rights and liberties in the biotech age : why we need a genetic bill of rights /
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| Imprint: | Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2005. |
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| Description: | xiii, 235 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5638160 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Biodiversity
- 1. Genetics, "Natural Rights," and the Preservation of Biodiversity
- 2. The Right to Biodiversity: A Concept Rooted in International Law and Understanding
- Part II. Life Patents
- 3. Life Patents and Democratic Values
- 4. New Enclosures: Why Civil Society and Governments Should Look Beyond Life Patents
- 5. Life Patents Undermine the Exchange of Technology and Scientific Ideas
- Part III. Genetically Engineered Food
- 6. Food Free of Genetic Engineering: More Than a Right
- 7. A Right to GE-Free Food: The Case of Maize Contamination
- 8. Ensuring the Public's Right to Safe Food
- Part IV. Indigenous Peoples
- 9. Acts of Self-Determination and Self-Defense: Indigenous Peoples' Responses to Biocolonialism
- 10. Global Trade and Intellectual Property: Threats to Indigenous Resources
- 11. Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Resource Rights
- Part V. Environmental Genotoxins
- 12. Arguing for a Right to Genetic Integrity
- 13. Refocusing Genomics Toward the Human Health Effects of Chemically Induced Mutations
- 14. "Omics," Toxics, and the Public Interest
- Part VI. Eugenics
- 15. Procreative Autonomy Versus Eugenic and Economic Interests of the State
- 16. A Disability Rights Approach to Eugenics
- Part VII. Genetic Privacy
- 17. Genetic Privacy in the Health Care System
- 18. Biotechnology's Challenge to Individual Privacy
- Part VIII. Genetic Discrimination
- 19. Beyond Genetic Anti-discrimination Legislation
- 20. Analyzing Genetic Discrimination in the Workplace
- 21. Disability Rights and Genetic Discrimination
- Part IX. Exculpatory DNA Evidence
- 22. A Fundamental Right to Post-conviction DNA Testing
- 23. Forensic DNA: The Criminal Defendant's Right to an Independent Expert
- Part X. Prenatal Genetic Modification
- 24. The Perils of Human Developmental Modification
- 25. Human Rights in a Post-human Future
- 26. Rights for Fetuses and Embryos?
- Afterword: Focusing Ingenuity with Human Rights
- Appendix. The Genetic Bill of Rights
- Index
- About the Editors
