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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. |
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