Genetic Justice - DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties

Informationen zum Autor Sheldon Krimsky is professor of urban and environmental policy and planning and adjunct professor of public health and community medicine at Tufts University. He is the author of eight books! including Science in the Private Interest: Has the Lure of Profit Corrupted Biomedical Research?. Tania Simoncelli worked for more than six years as the Science Advisor to the American Civil Liberties Union! where she guided the organization's responses to cutting-edge developments in biotechnology! neuroscience and public health policy. Klappentext National DNA databanks were initially established to catalogue the identities of violent criminals and sex offenders. However! since the mid-1990s! forensic DNA databanks have in some cases expanded to include people merely arrested! regardless of whether they've been charged or convicted of a crime. The public is largely unaware of these changes and the advances that biotechnology and forensic DNA science have made possible. Yet many citizens are beginning to realize that the unfettered collection of DNA profiles might compromise our basic freedoms and rights.

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• Authors: Sheldon Krimsky, Sheldon/ Simoncelli Krimsky, Krimsky Sheldon, Tania Simoncelli, Simoncelli Tania
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2012
• EAN: 9780231145213
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14521-3
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 224 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Columbia University Press
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; LAW / Forensic Science, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, SCIENCE / Ethics, Forensic Science, Ethical issues: scientific & technological developments, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship, criminology; law; genetics