skip to content
Close Window

Please sign in to WorldCat 

Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.

Just genes : the ethics of genetic technologies
ClosePreview this item

Just genes : the ethics of genetic technologies

Author: Carol Isaacson Barash
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Rating:

Retrieving ratings and reviews data...  

 

Find a copy in the library

Retrieving... Finding libraries that hold this item...

Details

Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Carol Isaacson Barash
ISBN: 9780313349003 0313349002
OCLC Number: 166379473
Description: xx, 264 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Are we ever talking just about genes? -- ch. 1. Justice and genes : a brief historical overview of the relevance of ethics to human genetics -- ch. 2. What is ethical analysis? -- ch. 3. The use and abuse of genetic information : genetic privacy and genetic discrimination -- ch. 4. Mean genes : hereditability, human behavior, and a genetic basis for aggression? -- ch. 5. To do no harm : from adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T) to molecular medicine -- ch. 6. Ethical challenges in biomarker research and biorepositories -- ch. 7. Genetically modified foods : do we become what we eat? -- ch. 8. Cloning and stem cells : fact, fiction, and ethics -- ch. 9. Fast forward to the future : will genetics technologies bite back? -- Appendix A : Ethical decision-making exercises -- Appendix B : Techniques used in genetic engineering and genetic modification -- Appendix C : Updating the Nuremberg Code -- Glossary -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
Responsibility: Carol Isaacson Barash.
More information:

Reviews

Retrieving WorldCat reviews...
Retrieving EMRO reviews...
Retrieving weRead reviews...
Retrieving GoodReads reviews...
Retrieving Amazon reviews...

Tags

Be the first.
Confirm this request

You may have already requested this item. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway.