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Book A Companion to Genethics

Download or read book A Companion to Genethics written by Justine Burley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Genethics is the first substantial study of the multifaceted dimensions of the genetic revolution and its philosophical, ethical, social and political significance. Brings together the best and most influential writing about the ethics of genetics; Includes 33 newly-commissioned essays, all written by prominent figures in the field; Shows how there is scarcely a part of our lives left unaffected by the impact of the new genetics.

Book GenEthics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kurt Bayertz
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780521416931
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book GenEthics written by Kurt Bayertz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the ethical controversies surrounding technological intervention in human reproduction.

Book Genethics

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Heyd
  • Publisher : University of California Press
  • Release : 2021-01-08
  • ISBN : 0520360079
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Genethics written by David Heyd and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unprecedented advances in medicine, genetic engineering, and demographic forecasting raise new questions that strain the categories and assumptions of traditional ethical theories. Heyd's approach resolves many paradoxes in intergenerational justice, while offering a major test case for the profound problems of the limits of ethics and the nature of value. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s 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 1992.

Book Genethics

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Heyd
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-04-28
  • ISBN : 0520313488
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Genethics written by David Heyd and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unprecedented advances in medicine, genetic engineering, and demographic forecasting raise new questions that strain the categories and assumptions of traditional ethical theories. Heyd's approach resolves many paradoxes in intergenerational justice, while offering a major test case for the profound problems of the limits of ethics and the nature of value. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s 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 1992.

Book Genethics

    Book Details:
  • Author : David T. Suzuki
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780674345652
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Genethics written by David T. Suzuki and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developments in the field of genetics (including, but not limited to, human genetics) have brought into being (or at least into the realm of plausibility) a genetic engineering which is widely perceived to pose a diverse assortment of intricately tangled and in many respects novel ethical problem

Book GenEthics and Religion

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  • Author : Georg Pfleiderer
  • Publisher : Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
  • Release : 2010-01-01
  • ISBN : 3805589735
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book GenEthics and Religion written by Georg Pfleiderer and published by Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human gene and cell technology is a diverse and rapidly evolving field of research. As genes represent the 'blueprint' of an organism, their analysis and manipulation is a challenge to our understanding of human nature. Stem cell research, genetic testing, gene therapy, therapeutic and reproductive cloning -- all these fields of application have been raising fundamental ethical and religious-theological questions: When does human life begin? Should human beings be allowed to interfere with natural procreation or to manipulate the genome of their own species? Is genetic engineering tantamount to 'playing God'? Based on the symposium 'GenEthics and Religion' held in Basel, Switzerland in May 2008, this volume examines the role religion can play in establishing ethical guidelines to protect human life in the face of rapid advances in biology and especially gene technology. It does so in a multidisciplinary way with contributions by philosophers, theologians, human geneticists, and several bioethicists representing the Christian, Jewish, Islamic and Buddhist perspectives. The essays illustrating a diversity of views and expressing the problems and self-critical reflectiveness of religious ethicists have been brought up to date and discuss the importance of religious ethics in society's discourse on gene technology.

Book Genomics and Society

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  • Author : Dhavendra Kumar
  • Publisher : Academic Press
  • Release : 2015-10-29
  • ISBN : 0127999213
  • Pages : 439 pages

Download or read book Genomics and Society written by Dhavendra Kumar and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genomics and Society; Ethical, Legal-Cultural, and Socioeconomic Implications is the first book to address the vast and thorny web of ELSI topics identified as core priorities of the NHGRI in 2011. The work addresses fundamental issues of biosociety and bioeconomy as the revolution in biology moves from research lab to healthcare system. Of particular interest to healthcare practitioners, bioethicists, and health economists, and of tangential interest to the gamut of applied social scientists investigating the societal impact of new medical paradigms, the work describes a myriad of issues around consent, confidentiality, rights, patenting, regulation, and legality in the new era of genomic medicine. - Addresses the vast and thorny web of ELSI topics identified as core priorities of the NHGRI in 2011 - Presents the core fundamental issues of biosociety and bioeconomy as the revolution in biology moves from research lab to healthcare system - Describes a myriad of issues around consent, including confidentiality, rights, patenting, regulation, and more

Book Applied Genomics and Public Health

Download or read book Applied Genomics and Public Health written by George P. Patrinos and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applied Genomics and Public Health examines the interdisciplinary and growing area of how evidence-based genomic knowledge can be applied to public health, population health, healthcare and health policies. The book gathers experts from a variety of disciplines, including life sciences, social sciences, and health care to develop a comprehensive overview of the field. In addition, the book delves into subjects such as pharmacogenomics, genethics, big data, data translation and analysis, economic evaluation, genomic awareness and education, sociology, pricing and reimbursement, policy measures and economic evaluation in genomic medicine. This book is essential reading for researchers and students exploring applications of genomics to population and public health. In addition, it is ideal for those in the biomedical sciences, medical sociologists, healthcare professionals, nurses, regulatory bodies and health economists interested in learning more about this growing field. - Explores the growing application of genomics to population and public health - Features internationally renowned contributors from a variety of related fields - Contains chapters on important topics such as genomic data sharing, genethics and public health genomics, genomics and sociology, and regulatory aspects of genomic medicine and pharmacogenomics

Book Our Genes  Our Choices

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  • Author : David Goldman
  • Publisher : Academic Press
  • Release : 2012-05-18
  • ISBN : 9780123969521
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Our Genes Our Choices written by David Goldman and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2012-05-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Genes, Our Choices: How Genotype and Gene Interactions Affect Behavior - First Prize winner of the 2013 BMA Medical Book Award for Basic and Clinical Sciences - explains how the complexity of human behavior, including concepts of free will, derives from a relatively small number of genes, which direct neurodevelopmental sequence. Are people free to make choices, or do genes determine behavior? Paradoxically, the answer to both questions is "yes," because of neurogenetic individuality, a new theory with profound implications. Author David Goldman uses judicial, political, medical, and ethical examples to illustrate that this lifelong process is guided by individual genotype, molecular and physiologic principles, as well as by randomness and environmental exposures, a combination of factors that we choose and do not choose. Written in an authoritative yet accessible style, the book includes practical descriptions of the function of DNA, discusses the scientific and historical bases of genethics, and introduces topics of epigenetics and the predictive power of behavioral genetics. First Prize winner of the 2013 BMA Medical Book Award for Basic and Clinical Sciences Poses and resolves challenges to moral responsibility raised by modern genetics and neuroscience Analyzes the neurogenetic origins of human behavior and free will Written by one of the world's most influential neurogeneticists, founder of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics at the National Institutes of Health

Book Bioethics  Genetics and Sport

Download or read book Bioethics Genetics and Sport written by Silvia Camporesi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in genetics and related biotechnologies are having a profound effect on sport, raising important ethical questions about the limits and possibilities of the human body. Drawing on real case studies and grounded in rigorous scientific evidence, this book offers an ethical critique of current practices and explores the intersection of genetics, ethics and sport. Written by two of the world's leading authorities on the ethics of biotechnology in sport, the book addresses the philosophical implications of the latest scientific developments and technological data. Distinguishing fact from popular myth and science fiction, it covers key topics such as the genetic basis of sport performance and the role of genetic testing in talent identification and development. Its ten chapters discuss current debates surrounding issues such as the shifting relationship between genetics, sports medicine and sports science, gene enhancement, gene transfer technology, doping and disability sport. The first book to be published on this important subject in more than a decade, this is fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in the ethics of sport, bioethics or sport performance.

Book From Chance to Choice

    Book Details:
  • Author : Allen Buchanan
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2001-11-12
  • ISBN : 1316583937
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book From Chance to Choice written by Allen Buchanan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-12 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, written by four internationally renowned bioethicists and first published in 2000, was the first systematic treatment of the fundamental ethical issues underlying the application of genetic technologies to human beings. Probing the implications of the remarkable advances in genetics, the authors ask how should these affect our understanding of distributive justice, equality of 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 examining the eugenics movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 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 Ethical Problems and Genetics Practice

Download or read book Ethical Problems and Genetics Practice written by Michael Parker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a rich, case-based account of the ethical issues arising in genetics for health professionals, patients and their families.

Book A Life  Un Worthy of Living

Download or read book A Life Un Worthy of Living written by Yael Hashiloni-Dolev and published by International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the findings of a study into the social shaping of reproductive genetics in Germany and Israel. The study reveals dramatic differences between German and Israeli societies in addressing the question of a life (un)worthy of living. A close analysis of the ways that these two societies handle the balance between the quality and sanctity of life illuminates controversies over reproductive genetics in an original and provocative way.

Book Genetics and the Manipulation of Life

Download or read book Genetics and the Manipulation of Life written by Craig Holdrege and published by Lindisfarne Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative work that challenges our common assumptions about nature and science, this book is for all who want to understand the biological revolution of the late twentieth century. In this clearly written, well-illustrated book, Holdrege describes, using fascinating examples, how living organisms develop and exist within the context of their environments. In an age when we are able to reshape life on earth, this book offers a deeper, more complex vision of nature, one that can help us establish a more conscious and responsible connection to the world around us.

Book Human Genetics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ricki Lewis
  • Publisher : McGraw-Hill Science, Engineering & Mathematics
  • Release : 2004-02
  • ISBN : 9780072951745
  • Pages : 439 pages

Download or read book Human Genetics written by Ricki Lewis and published by McGraw-Hill Science, Engineering & Mathematics. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human Genetics, 6/e is a non-science majors human genetics text that clearly explains what genes are, how they function, how they interact with the environment, and how our understanding of genetics has changed since completion of the human genome project. It is a clear, modern, and exciting book for citizens who will be responsible for evaluating new medical options, new foods, and new technologies in the age of genomics.

Book Choosing Justice

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  • Author : Norman Frohlich
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-07-28
  • ISBN : 052091449X
  • Pages : 275 pages

Download or read book Choosing Justice written by Norman Frohlich and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an entirely new answer to the question: "What is fair?" In their radical approach to ethics, Frohlich and Oppenheimer argue that much of the empirical methodology of the natural sciences should be applied to the ethical questions of fairness and justice.

Book Genetics genomics Nursing

    Book Details:
  • Author : International Society of Nurses in Genetics
  • Publisher : Nursesbooks.org
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 1558102345
  • Pages : 119 pages

Download or read book Genetics genomics Nursing written by International Society of Nurses in Genetics and published by Nursesbooks.org. This book was released on 2007 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: