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Ethical and scientific issues posed by human uses of molecular genetics : [papers] / edited by Marc Lappé and Robert S. Morison.

Title
Ethical and scientific issues posed by human uses of molecular genetics : [papers] / edited by Marc Lappé and Robert S. Morison.
Author
Conference on Ethical and Scientific Issues Posed by Human Uses of Molecular Genetics (1975 : New York, N.Y.)
Publication
New York : New York Academy of Sciences, 1976.

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Additional Authors
  • Institute of Society, Ethics, and the Life Sciences
  • Lappé, Marc.
  • Morison, Robert S., 1906-1986.
  • New York Academy of Sciences.
Description
208 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
Conference sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Society, Ethics, and the Life Sciences.
Series Statement
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 265
Uniform Title
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences v. 265.
Subject
  • Bioethics
  • Genetic Engineering
  • Genetic engineering > Social aspects > Congresses
  • Human genetics > Social aspects > Congresses
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Congress
Note
  • Conference sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Society, Ethics, and the Life Sciences.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Ethical responsibility in science in the face of uncertain consequences / Daniel Callahan -- The prospects for gene therapy in humans / John F. Morrow -- Ethical issues in priority-setting for the utilization of genetic technologies / Sumner B. Twiss, Jr. -- Social and political uses of genetics in the United States : past and present / Jon Beckwith -- Reflections on issues posed by recombinant DNA molecule technology I / Richard Roblin -- Reflections on issues posed by recombinant DNA molecule technology II / Stanfield Rogers -- Reflections on issues posed by recombinant DNA molecule technology III / Alexander Morgan Capron -- Scientific optimism and societal concerns : a note on the psychology of scientists / Gerald Holton -- Reflections on the cost of doing science / Marc Lappé -- A psychiatrist looks at scientists looking at science / Robert Michels -- Philosophical considerations in the growing potential for human genetic control / Richard T. Hull -- Panel discussion -- "Genetic medicine" in pediatric practice now / William J. Mellman -- The future for gene therapy : a reevaluation / Theodore Friedmann -- Gene therapy and the ethics of genetic therapeutics / Robert Neville -- Panel discussion -- Law and genetic control : public-policy questions / Harold P. Green -- Reflections and speculations on the regulation of molecular genetic research / J. Leslie Glick -- Novel pressures on the advance of science / Bernard D. Davis -- Closing Remarks / Robert Morison.
ISBN
0890720193
LCCN
^^^75044062^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library