<p>Modern science has made remarkable advances in genetics. This volume covers the foundations of genes and heredity to give readers a solid understanding of what modern genetics has been built on, before examining the ways in which genetic testing is used to assess genetic risk. Also featured are t
Genetics And Gene Therapy
β Scribed by McLean, S. A.M.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 568
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Series Preface
Introduction
Part I Genetics - General
1 Julian Kinderlerer and Diane Longley (1998), 'Human Genetics: The New Panacea?', Modern Law Review, 61, pp. 603-20
2 Julia Black (1998), 'Regulation as Facilitation: Negotiating the Genetic Revolution', Modern Law Review, 61, pp. 621-60
3 Darryl Macer (1991), 'Whose Genome Project?', Bioethics, 5, pp. 183-211
4 Sheila A.M. McLean (2001), 'The Gene Genie: Good Fairy or Wicked Witch?', Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 32, pp.723-39
5 John A. Robertson (2003), 'Procreative Liberty in the Era of Genomics', American Journal of Law and Medicine, 29, pp. 439-87
6 Susan M. Wolf (1995), 'Beyond "Genetic Discrimination": Toward the Broader Harm of Geneticism', Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, 23, pp. 345-53
7 Deborah Hellman (2003), 'What Makes Genetic Discrimination Exceptional?', American Journal of Law and Medicine, 29, pp. 77-116
8 Dean Bell and Belinda Bennett (2001), 'Genetic Secrets and the Family', Medical Law Review, 9, pp. 130-61
9 Lawrence O. Gostin (1995), 'Genetic Privacy', Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, 23, pp. 320-30
10 Graeme T. Laurie (2001), 'Challenging Medical-Legal Norms: The Role of Autonomy, Confidentiality, and Privacy in Protecting Individual and Familial Group Rights in Genetic Information', Journal of Legal Medicine, 22, pp. 1-54
11 Philippa Gannon and Charlotte Villiers (1999), 'Genetic Testing and Employee Protection', Medical Law International, 4, pp. 39-57
12 Allen Buchanan, Andrea Califano, Jeffrey Kahn, Elizabeth McPherson, John Robertson and Baruch Brody (2002), 'Pharmacogenetics: Ethical Issues and Policy Options', Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 12, pp. 1-15
Part II Gene Therapy/Testing/Cloning
13 Heather Draper and Ruth Chadwick (1999), 'Beware! Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis May Solve Some Old Problems But It Also Raises New Ones', Journal of Medical Ethics, 25, pp. 114-20
14 Lainie Friedman Ross (2002), 'Predictive Genetic Testing for Conditions that Present in Childhood', Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 12, pp. 225-44
15 Stephen Robertson and Julian Savulescu (2001), 'Is there a Case in Favour of Predictive Genetic Testing in Young Children?', Bioethics, 15, pp. 26-49
16 Mark S. Frankel (2003), 'Inheritable Genetic Modification and a Brave New World: Did Huxley Have it Wrong?', Hastings Center Report, 33, pp. 31-36
17 Sara Goering (2000), 'Gene Therapies and the Pursuit of a Better Human', Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 9, pp. 330-41
18 George J. Annas, Lori B. Andrews and Rosario M. Isasi (2002), 'Protecting the Endangered Human: Toward an International Treaty Prohibiting Cloning and Inheritable Alterations', American Journal of Law and Medicine, 28, pp. 151-78
19 John Harris (1997), '''Goodbye Dolly?" The Ethics of Human Cloning', Journal of Medical Ethics, 23, pp. 353-60
20 Carson Strong (1998), 'Cloning and Infertility', Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 7, pp. 279-93
21 Julian Savulescu (1999), 'Should We Clone Human Beings? Cloning as a Source of Tissue for Transplantation', Journal of Medical Ethics, 25, pp. 87-95
22 SΓΈren Holm (2002), 'Going to the Roots of the Stem Cell Controversy', Bioethics, 16, pp. 493-507
23 John Harris (2003), 'Stem Cells, Sex, and Procreation', Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 12, pp. 353-71
24 Roger Brownsword (2002), 'Stem Cells, Superman, and the Report of the Select Committee', Modern Law Review, 65, pp. 568-87
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