Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction: the development of ethics discourse on genetics / Gerard Magill -- Policy challenges: ethical, legal, and social implications of genetics / Ellen Wright Clayton -- The genetics revolution--can the law cope? / Sheila A.M. Mclean -- Genetics, investment, and business: organizational ethics for genomics companies / Gerard Magill -- Geneticization: the sociocultural impact of genotechnology / Henk A.M.J. ten Have -- Genes and gender: an egalitarian analysis / Mary Briody Mahowald -- Using human dignity to constrain genetic research and development: when it works and when it does not / Jan Heller -- Engineering our grace: an old idea and new genetic technologies / Brent Waters -- The impact of genetics and genomics on views of aging / David Schlessinger.

Genetic labels and long-term-care policies: a winning or losing proposition for patients? / Ruth Purtilo -- The challenge of advances in genetic medicine for the biomedical and organizational ethics of health care delivery / Dennis Brodeur -- The challenge of physician education in genetics / Carol Bayley -- Pharmacogenetics, genetics screening, and health care / Ruth Chadwick -- Ethical aspects of prenatal screening and diagnosis / Norman Ford -- Gene "therapy": a test case for research with children / M. Therese Lysaught -- Science, ethics, and policy: relating human genomics to embryonic stem-cell research and therapeutic cloning / Gerard Magill.