Genetics : science, ethics, and public policy : a reader / edited by Thomas A. Shannon. - Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2005. - xii, 200 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Readings in bioethics . - Readings in bioethics. .

"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.

0742532356 (cloth : alk. paper) 0742532380 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2004021101

101229218 DNLM


Genetics--Moral and ethical aspects.
Bioethics.
Genetics, Medical--Ethics--Collected Works.
Bioethical Issues--Collected Works.
Genetic engineering--Ethics--Collected Works.
Genetic screening--Ethics--Collected Works.
Political planning--Collected Works.
Political planning--Collected Works.

QH438.7 / .G465 2005