Justice and the Human Genome ProjectAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 10 July 2018
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The Human Genome Project is an expensive, ambitious, and controversial attempt to locate and map every one of the approximately 100,000 genes in the human body. If it works, and we are able, for instance, to identify markers for genetic diseases long before they develop, who will have the right to obtain such information? What will be the consequences for health care, health insurance, employability, and research priorities? And, more broadly, how will attitudes toward human differences be affected, morally and socially, by the setting of a genetic â?ostandardâ??? A The compatibility of individual rights and genetic fairness is challenged by the technological possibilities of the future, making it difficult to create an agenda for a â?ojust genetics.â?? Beginning with an account of the utopian dreams and authoritarian tendencies of historical eugenics movements, this bookâ?Ts nine essays probe the potential social uses and abuses of detailed genetic information. Lucid and wide-ranging, these contributions will interest bioethicists, legal scholars, and policy makers. A Essays: â?oThe Genome Project and the Meaning of Difference,â?? Timothy F. Murphy â?oEugenics and the Human Genome Project: Is the Past Prologue?,â?? Daniel J. Kevles â?oHandle with Care: Race, Class, and Genetics,â?? Arthur L. Caplan â?oPublic Choices and Private Choices: Legal Regulation of Genetic Testing,â?? Lori B. Andrews â?oRules for Gene Banks: Protecting Privacy in the Genetics Age,â?? George J. Annas â?oUse of Genetic Information by Private Insurers,â?? Robert J. Pokorski â?oThe Genome Project, Individual Differences, and Just Health Care,â?? Norman Daniels â?oJust Genetics: A Problem Agenda,â?? Leonard M. Fleck â?oJustice and the Limitations of Genetic Knowledge,â?? Marc A. LappAcA This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Pressâ?Ts mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
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