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Title

The ethics of inheritable genetic modification : a dividing line? / edited by John E.J. Rasko, Gabrielle M. O'Sullivan, Rachel A. Ankeny.

Publication

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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Additional Authors

• Rasko, John E. J.
• O'Sullivan, Gabrielle.
• Ankeny, Rachel A.

Description

xxxv, 315 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Genetic engineering > Moral and ethical aspects
• Biotechnology > Moral and ethical aspects
• Genetic Engineering > ethics
• Biotechnology > ethics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword : shopping at the genetic supermarket / Peter Singer -- 1. Is inheritable genetic modification the new dividing line? / John E. J. Rasko, Gabrielle M. O'Sullivan and Rachel A. Ankeny -- 2. The science of inheritable genetic modification / John E. J. Rasko and Douglas J. Jolly -- 3. Nuclear cloning, embryonic stem cells, and gene transfer / Rudolf Jaenisch -- 4. Controlling bodies and creating monsters : popular perceptions of genetic modifications / Christoph Rehmann-Sutter -- 5. Inheritable genetic modification as moral responsibility in a creative universe / Denis Kenny -- 6. Ethics and welfare issues in animal genetic modification / Gabrielle M. O'Sullivan -- 7. Radical rupture : exploring biologic sequelae of volitional inheritable genetic modification / Francoise Baylis and Jason Scott Robert -- 8. "Alter-ing" the human species? : misplaced essentialism in science policy / Eric T. Juengst -- 9. Traditional and feminist bioethical perspectives on gene transfer : is inheritable genetic modification really the problem? / Rosemarie Tong -- 10. Inheritable genetic modification and disability : normality and identity / Jackie Leach Scully -- 11. Regulating inheritable genetic modification, or policing the fertile scientific imagination? : a feminist legal response / Isabel Karpin and Roxanne Mykitiuk -- 12. Inheritable genetic modification : clinical applications and genetic counseling considerations / Joan A. Scott -- 13. Can bioethics speak to politics about the prospect of inheritable genetic modification? : if so, what might it say? / Roberta M. Berry.

ISBN

• 0521822777 (hbk.)
• 0521529735 (pbk.)

LCCN

• 9780521822770
• 9780521529730

OCLC

• ocm64406352
• SCSB-5241612

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Columbia University Libraries