Research Catalog

Title

Access to the genome : the challenge to equality / Maxwell J. Mehlman, Jeffrey R. Botkin.

Author

Mehlman, Maxwell J.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c1998.

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Additional Authors

Botkin, Jeffrey R.

Description

vii, 152 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Completion of the Human Genome Project will make possible a staggering array of new medical technologies, including new diagnostic and screening tests for inherited disorders, gene therapies, and the ability to manipulate a person's inherited, non-disease traits. Most of the attention given to the social implications of these technologies has focused on their potential to harm the individual, for example, by denying employment or insurance. This book explores instead the potential harm to society if we unfairly distribute the enormous benefits of genetic technologies. The resulting division of society into genetic haves and have-nots would undermine the basic foundation of Western democratic society -- the belief in equality of opportunity.

Subject

• Human Genome Project
• Genome, Human
• Human genome

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-143) and index.

Contents

The human genome project -- The practical applications of human genetic technology -- The impact of genetic technologies -- Access to genetic technologies -- Genetic technologies and the challenge to equality -- Resonding to the challenge.

ISBN

• 0878406778
• 0878406786 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^97037974^

OCLC

37567397

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library