Ethical Problems and Genetics Practice

Informationen zum Autor Michael Parker served as a missionary and professor of church history for many years in Sudan, Rwanda, and Egypt. Most recently, he was the director of graduate studies at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo, Egypt, from 2012 to 2020. He is also the author of five previous books, including The Kingdom of Character: The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, 1886-1926 (2008). Klappentext Provides a rich, case-based account of the ethical issues arising in genetics for health professionals, patients and their families. Zusammenfassung Ethical Problems and Genetics Practice provides a rich! case-based account of the ethical issues arising in genetics for health professionals! patients and their families. It will be particularly relevant to medical! nursing and genetic-counselling students and to graduate students in bioethics! social science and medical anthropology. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The patient in the families; 3. Elective affinities; 4. Reproducing ethics; 5. Multi-professional practices; 6. Moral craft; 7. Methodological reflections.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Parker, Michael (University of Oxford) Parker, Parker Michael
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.04.2012
• EAN: 9781107020801
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02080-1
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Cambridge Bioethics and Law; Cambridge Bioethics and Law
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law