From chance to choice : genetics and justice

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Label

From chance to choice : genetics and justice

Title remainder

genetics and justice

Statement of responsibility

Allen Buchanan [and others]

Contributor

• Buchanan, Allen E., 1948-

Subject

• Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Human genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Human Genome Project -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Health Policy
• Genetics, Medical
• Medical ethics -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Eugenics -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Human Genome Project
• Genetic Engineering
• Bioethics
• Eugenics

Language

eng

Summary

"This book probes the implications of advances in genetics. The authors ask how they should affect our understanding of distributive justice, equality in opportunity, the rights and obligations as parents, the meaning of disability, and the role of the concept of human nature in ethical theory and practice." "The book offers a historical context to contemporary debate over the use of these technologies by providing an ethical autopsy of mankind's first attempts to use the scientific knowledge of heredity to improve human lives: the eugenics movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Appendices explain the nature of genetic causation and gene-environment interaction, and expose widespread misconceptions of genetic determinism, as well as outline the nature of the ethical analysis used in the book." "The questions raised in this book will be of interest to any reflective reader concerned about science and society and the rapid development of biotechnology, as well as to professionals in such areas as philosophy, bioethics, medical ethics, health management, law, and political science."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

174/.25

Index

index present

LC call number

QH431

LC item number

.F8765 2000

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography