Rights and liberties in the biotech age : why we need a genetic bill of rights / edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Peter Shorett.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Krimsky, Sheldon.
• Shorett, Peter, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Biotechnology--Social aspects.
• Bioethics.
• Bioethical Issues.
• Genetic Engineering--ethics.
• Biotechnology--ethics.
• Human Rights.

Medical Subjects:

• Bioethical Issues.
• Genetic Engineering--ethics.
• Biotechnology--ethics.
• Human Rights.

Physical Description:

xiii, 235 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2005]

Summary:

Rights and Liberties in the Biotech Age is the first book reaching broadly into biotechnology that imbeds the issues into a rights framework for the social management of technology. The contributors to the volume comprise prominent university scientists, civil rights lawyers, and public interest activists who bring their perspectives to issues where science and civil liberties meet head on.

Contents:

• Biodiversity
• Life patents
• Genetically engineered food
• Indigenous peoples
• Environmental genotoxins
• Eugenics
• Genetic privacy
• Genetic discrimination
• Exculpatory DNA evidence
• Prenatal genetic modification.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 0742543404
• 0742543412

OCLC:

56325018