Genetics : science, ethics, and public policy : a reader / edited by Thomas A. Shannon.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Readings in bioethicsPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2005.Description: xii, 200 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0742532356 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0742532380 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QH438.7 .G465 2005
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Contents:
Biotechnology and the threat of a posthuman future / Francis Fukuyama -- Crossing species boundaries / Jason Scott Robert and Frano��?�ise Baylis -- Genetic counseling and the disabled : feminism examines the stance of those who stand at the gate / Annette Patterson and Martha Satz -- The natural father : genetic paternity testing, marriage, and fatherhood / Gregory E. Kaebnick -- Ethics of preimplantation diagnosis for a woman destined to develop early-onset Alzheimer disease / Dena Towner and Roberta Springer Loewy -- Procreation for donation : the moral and political permissibility of "having a child to save a child" / Mark P. Aulisio, Thomas May and Geoffrey D. Block -- Population screening in the age of genomic medicine / Muin J. Khoury, Linda L. McCabe, and Edward R.B. McCabe -- Navigating race in the market for human gametes / Hawley Fogg-Davis -- How can you patent genes? / Rebecca S. Eisenberg -- Monitoring stem cell research / President's Council on Bioethics -- Nuclear transplantation, embryonic stem cells, and the potential for cell therapy / Konrad Hockedlinger and Rodulf Jaenisch.
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"A Sheed & Ward book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Biotechnology and the threat of a posthuman future / Francis Fukuyama -- Crossing species boundaries / Jason Scott Robert and Frano��?�ise Baylis -- Genetic counseling and the disabled : feminism examines the stance of those who stand at the gate / Annette Patterson and Martha Satz -- The natural father : genetic paternity testing, marriage, and fatherhood / Gregory E. Kaebnick -- Ethics of preimplantation diagnosis for a woman destined to develop early-onset Alzheimer disease / Dena Towner and Roberta Springer Loewy -- Procreation for donation : the moral and political permissibility of "having a child to save a child" / Mark P. Aulisio, Thomas May and Geoffrey D. Block -- Population screening in the age of genomic medicine / Muin J. Khoury, Linda L. McCabe, and Edward R.B. McCabe -- Navigating race in the market for human gametes / Hawley Fogg-Davis -- How can you patent genes? / Rebecca S. Eisenberg -- Monitoring stem cell research / President's Council on Bioethics -- Nuclear transplantation, embryonic stem cells, and the potential for cell therapy / Konrad Hockedlinger and Rodulf Jaenisch.

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