Connected Self - The Ethics and Governance of the Genetic Individual

Informationen zum Autor Heather Widdows is a Professor in the philosophy department at the University of Birmingham, where she teaches moral philosophy, bioethics, global ethics and health and happiness. Klappentext Heather Widdows suggests new ethical frameworks for genetic governance, to replace those that offer little protection and permit significant injustice. Zusammenfassung The genetic self is the connected self. Dominant ethical frameworks - particularly those of choice and consent - fail to recognise this. Accordingly! ethical practices offer little protection and permit significant injustice. New frameworks of ethics and governance are needed which respect relationships and groups as well as common and public goods. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The individual self and its critics; 2. The individualist assumptions of bioethical frameworks; 3. The genetic self is the connected self; 4. The failures of individual ethics in the genetic era; 5. The communal turn; 6. Developing alternatives: benefit sharing; 7. Developing alternatives: trust; 8. The ethical toolbox part one: recognising goods and harms; 9. The ethical toolbox part two: applying appropriate practices; 10. Possible futures.

Product details

• Authors: Heather Widdows, Heather (University of Birmingham) Widdows, Widdows Heather
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.01.2013
• EAN: 9781107008601
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00860-1
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Cambridge Bioethics and Law; Cambridge Bioethics and Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, LAW / Medical Law & Legislation, Bioethics, Bio-ethics, Medical & healthcare law, Medical and healthcare law