Genetics and gene therapy /
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| Imprint: | Aldershot, Hants, England : Dartmouth ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005. |
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| Description: | xxxi, 535 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The international library of medicine, ethics, and law International library of medicine, ethics and law. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5897234 |
Table of Contents:
- Series preface
- Introduction
- Genetics - General
- Human genetics: the new panacea?
- Regulation as facilitation: negotiating the genetic revolution
- Whose genome project?
- The gene genie: good fairy or wicked witch?
- Procreative liberty in the era of genomics
- Beyond 'genetic discrimination': toward the broader harm of geneticism
- What makes genetic discrimination exceptional?
- Genetic secrets and the family
- Genetic privacy
- Challenging medical-legal norms: the role of autonomy, confidentiality, and privacy in protecting individual and familial group rights in genetic information
- Genetic testing and employee protection
- Pharmacogenetics: ethical issues and policy option
- Gene Therapy/Testing/Cloning
- Beware! Preimplantation genetic diagnosis may solve some old problems but it also raises new ones
- Predictive genetic testing for conditions that present in childhood
- Is there a case in favour of predictive genetic testing in young children?
- Inheritable genetic modification and a brave new world: did Huxley have it wrong?
- Gene therapies and the pursuit of a better human
- Protecting the endangered human: toward an international treaty prohibiting cloning and inheritable alterations
- 'Goodbye Dolly'? the ethics of human cloning
- Cloning and infertility
- Should we clone human beings? Cloning as a source of tissue for transplantation
- Going to the roots of the stem cell controversy
- Stem cells, sex and procreation
- Stem cells, superman and the report of the select committee
- Name index
