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The right to know and the right not to know : genetic privacy and responsibility / edited by Ruth Chadwick, Mairi Levitt and Darren Shickle.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Chadwick, Ruth F., editor.
Levitt, Mairi, editor.
Shickle, Darren, editor.
Cambridge University Press.
Samuel Bellet Book Fund.
Series:
Cambridge bioethics and law
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Human chromosome abnormalities--Diagnosis--Moral and ethical aspects.
Human chromosome abnormalities.
Genetic disorders--Diagnosis--Moral and ethical aspects.
Genetic disorders.
Privacy, Right of.
Genetic disorders--Diagnosis.
Human chromosome abnormalities--Diagnosis.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Edition:
Second edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Introduction: the right to know and the right not to know: seventeen years on Darren Shickle; Part I. Philosophical and Legal Issues: 1. The philosophy of the right to know and the right not to know Ruth Chadwick; 2. Autonomy Jorgen Husted; 3. Privacy and the right not to know: a plea for conceptual clarity Graeme Laurie; Part II. Issues in Genetics: 4. Biobanks and feedback: the right to know what other people know Kadri Simm; 5. Suspects, victims and others: producing and sharing forensic genetic knowledge Robin Williams and Matthias Weinroth; 6. Empowered by choice? Mairi Levitt; 7. DIY: the right to know your own genome Barbara Prainsack; 8. Genomics, inconvenient truths, and accountability Jeantine Lunshof and Ruth Chadwick; Part III. Emerging Issues: 9. The right to know and the right not to know in the era of neoliberal biopolitics and bioeconomy Henk ten Have; 10. The parental love argument against 'designing' babies: the harm in knowing that one has been selected or enhanced Anca Gheaus; 11. The inescapability of knowing and inability to not know in the digital society Richard Watermeyer; 12. The press and the public interest Joachim Allgaier; 13. The food we eat: the right to be informed and the duty to inform Michiel Korthals.
Notes:
Description based on print version record.
First published: Aldershot ; Brookfield, VT : Avebury, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Samuel Bellet Book Fund.
ISBN:
1139875981
9781139875981
Publisher Number:
99960024058
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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