Just genes : the ethics of genetic technologies / Carol Isaacson Barash.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barash, Carol Isaacson.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genetic engineering--Moral and ethical aspects.

Genetic engineering.

Physical Description:

xx, 264 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.

Contents:

Introduction: Are We Ever Talking Just about Genes? xiii

Chapter 1 Justice and Genes: A Brief Historical Overview of the Relevance of Ethics to Human Genetics 1

Chapter 2 What Is Ethical Analysis? 29

Chapter 3 The Use and Abuse of Genetic Information: Genetic Privacy and Genetic Discrimination 47

Chapter 4 Mean Genes: Hereditability, Human Behavior, and a Genetic Basis for Aggression? 89

Chapter 5 To Do No Harm: From adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T) to Molecular Medicine 115

Chapter 6 Ethical Challenges in Biomarker Research and Biorepositories 133

Chapter 7 Genetically Modified Foods: Do We Become What We Eat? 159

Chapter 8 Cloning and Stem Cells: Fact, Fiction, and Ethics 189

Chapter 9 Fast Forward to the Future: Will Genetics Technologies Bite Back? 207

Appendix A Ethical Decision-Making Exercises 223

Appendix B Techniques Used in Genetic Engineering and Genetic Modification 239

Appendix C Updating the Nuremberg Code 243.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-257) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780313349003

0313349002

OCLC:

166379473