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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sheldon Krimsky; Peter Shorett |
| ISBN: | 0742543404 9780742543409 0742543412 9780742543416 |
| OCLC Number: | 56325018 |
| Notes: | "A project of the Council for Responsible Genetics." |
| Description: | xiii, 235 p. 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Genetics, "natural rights," and the preservation of biodiversity / Brian Tokar -- The right to biodiversity: a concept rooted in international law and understanding / Philip Bereano -- Life patents and democratic values / Matthew Albright -- New enclosures: why civil society and governments should look beyond life patents / Hope Shand -- Life patents undermine the exchange of technology and scientific ideas / Jonathan King and Doreen Stabinsky -- Food free of genetic engineering: more than a right / Martha R. Herbert -- A right to GE-free food: the case of maize contamination / Doreen Stabinsky -- Ensuring the public's right to safe food / Richard Caplan -- Acts of self-determination and self-defense: indigenous peoples' responses to biocolonialism / Debra Harry -- Global trade and intellectual property: threats to indigenous resources / Vandana Shiva -- Indigenous peoples and traditional resource rights / Graham Dutfield -- Arguing for a right to genetic integrity / Marc Lappé -- Refocusing genomics toward the human health effects of chemically induced mutations / Sheldon Krimsky -- "Omics," toxics, and the public interest / José F. Morales -- Procreative autonomy versus eugenic and economic interests of the state / Ruth Hubbard -- A disability rights approach to eugenics / Gregor Wolbring -- Genetic privacy in the health care system / Jeroo Kotval -- Biotechnology's challenge to individual privacy / Philip Bereano -- Beyond genetic anti-discrimination legislation / Joseph S. Alper -- Analyzing genetic discrimination in the workplace / Paul Steven Miller -- Disability rights and genetic discrimination / Gregor Wolbring -- A fundamental right to post-conviction DNA testing / Peter J. Neufeld and Sarah Tofte -- Forensic DNA: the criminal defendant's right to an independent expert / John Tuhey -- The perils of human developmental modification / Stuart A. Newman -- Human rights in a post-human future / Marcy Darnovsky -- Rights for fetuses and embryos? / Ruth Hubbard -- Afterword: Focusing ingenuity with human rights / Paul R. Billings -- Appendix: The Genetic Bill of Rights. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Peter Shorett. |
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