This book is a terrific exposition of the issues facing the 21st century in genetics, combining and unifying the moral and scientific perspectives. As a decidely middlebrow reader with little or no scientific background, I nonetheless found this this book fascinating. The author is clear, concise, and her linear organization of the material is first rate.
Author(s): Carol Isaacson Barash
Edition: 1
Publisher: Praeger
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 285
Cover......Page 1
Halftitle......Page 2
Inside Cover......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction: Are We Ever Talking Just about Genes?......Page 14
1 -- Justice and Genes: A BriefHistorical Overview of the Relevance of Ethics to Human Genetics......Page 22
2 -- What Is Ethical Analysis?......Page 50
3 -- The Use and Abuse of Genetic Information: Genetic Privacy and Genetic Discrimination......Page 68
4 -- Mean Genes: Hereditability, Human Behavior, and a Genetic Basis for Aggression?......Page 110
5 -- To Do No Harm: From adenine(A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T) to MolecularMedicine......Page 136
6 -- Ethical Challenges in Biomarker Research and Biorepositories......Page 154
7 -- Genetically Modified Foods: Do We Become What We Eat?......Page 180
8 -- Cloning and Stem Cells: Fact, Fiction, and Ethics......Page 210
9 -- Fast Forward to the Future: Will Genetics Technologies Bite Back?......Page 228
APPENDIX A: Ethical Decision-Making Exercises......Page 244
APPENDIX B: Techniques Used in Genetic Engineering and Genetic Modification......Page 260
APPENDIX C: Updating the Nuremberg Code......Page 264
Glossary......Page 268
Selected Bibliography......Page 274
Index......Page 280
