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Sorting Society - The Ethics of Genetic Screening and Therapy

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Loane Skene is Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne! Australia. Janna Thompson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at La Trobe University! Melbourne! Australia. Klappentext Focuses on the ethical, legal and social issues raised by genetic testing and therapy. Zusammenfassung Focuses on the ethical! legal and social issues raised by genetic testing and therapy. This book will be of interest to philosophers! political commentators! clinicians! lawyers! people with genetic conditions and their families - indeed to anyone concerned about one of the major issues of our time. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction Janna Thompson and Loane Skene; 2. Genetic testing, an informed choice Agnes Bankier and David Cram; 3. Sex selection: sorting sperm as a gateway to the sorting society? Edgar Dahl; 4. Cloning to avoid genetic disease Lynn Gillam; 5. Procreative beneficence: reasons to not have disabled children Julian Savulescu; 6. Reprogenic technologies: balancing parental procreative autonomy and social equity and justice Leslie Cannold; 7. Genetic technology and intergenerational justice Janna Thompson; 8. Genetic preselection and the moral equality of individuals David Neil; 9. Genes, identity, and the 'expressivist critique' Rob Sparrow; 10.Overstating the biological: geneticism and essentialism in social cloning and social sex selection Mianna Lotz; 11. The sorting society - a legal perspective Loane Skene.

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Authors Loane Skene, Loane (University of Melbourne) Thompson Skene, Janna Skene Thompson
Assisted by Loane Skene (Editor), Loane (University of Melbourne) Skene (Editor), Janna Thompson (Editor), Janna (La Trobe University Thompson (Editor)
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 18.09.2008
 
EAN 9780521689847
ISBN 978-0-521-68984-7
No. of pages 160
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General

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