Unzipped Genes - Taking Charge of Baby-Making in the New Millennium

Explains the biotechnology of the Human Genome Project in terms we can understand. Not limiting her bioethics to the realm of abstraction, the author maintains that her new bioethics of birth can lead to the end of abortion and unwanted pregnancy and the creation of a world in which people can achieve a greater solidarity with one another.

List of contents

Series Editor's Foreword Author's Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Sex and the Genie of Life 1. The Holocaust of Sex 2. Genomic Imperialism and Democide: The Age of Discovery Reborn Part II: The Biotechnology of Birth 3. Personal Eugenics: My Perfect Baby 4. Social Eugenics: My Perfect Society 5. Transgenic Creationism: My Perfect Monster Part III: The Bioethics of Birth 6. Sharing Our Genome: The Fabric of Life 7. Expressing Our Genome: Intentional Life 8. Controlling Our Genome: Unintentional Life 9. Respecting Our Genome: Ending the Crime Afterword: Coming Next: An Age of Euthenics Appendix: International Documents on Genomic Rights Index

Summary

Explains the biotechnology of the Human Genome Project in terms we can understand. Not limiting her bioethics to the realm of abstraction, the author maintains that her new bioethics of birth can lead to the end of abortion and unwanted pregnancy and the creation of a world in which people can achieve a greater solidarity with one another.

Product details

• Authors: Martine Rothblatt, Martine Aliana Rothblatt
• Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.06.1997
• EAN: 9781566395229
• ISBN: 978-1-56639-522-9
• No. of pages: 201
• Series: America in Transition: Radical; America in Transition; America in Transition: Radical
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Biotechnologie, Bioethik, Reproduktionsmedizin, Ethik und Moralphilosophie, Genetik (nicht-medizinisch)