Research Catalog

Title

Genetic imaginations : ethical, legal, and social issues in human genome research / edited by Peter Glasner, and Harry Rothman.

Publication

Aldershot ; Brookfield, U.S.A. : Ashgate Pub., c1998.

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Additional Authors

• Glasner, Peter E.
• Rohtman, Harry.
• Rothman, Harry.

Description

ix, 140 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Avebury series in philosophy

Uniform Title

• Avebury series in philosophy.
• Genetic engineer and biotechnologist.

Subject

• Ethics, Medical
• Genetic Techniques
• Health Policy
• Human Genome Project > Social aspects
• Human Genome Project
• Medical Research Council (Great Britain)
• Medical genetics > Social aspects

Genre/Form

Collected Work

Note

• Papers based on a workshop.
• Papers appeared in a double issue of the Genetic engineer and biotechnologist 15 2/3: 83-187, 1995.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Social dimensions of the human genome mapping project: an introduction / Peter Glasner & Harry Rothman -- Transitional science and the human genome mapping project resource centre / Brian Balmer -- How weak bonds stick? Genetic diagnosis between the laboratory and the clinic / Jean-Paul Gaudillie︡re -- Information technology as an instrument of genetics / Christine Hine -- Exploring organisational issues in British genomic research / Peter Glasner, Harry Rothman & David Travis -- Eugenics here and now / Ruth McNally -- MOral and legal consequences for the fetus/unborn child of medical technologies derived from human genome research / Peter R. Wheale -- The American gene therapy industry and the social shaping of a new technology / Paul Martin -- Social criticism and the human genome programme: some reflections on the limits of a limited social science / Hilary Rose -- Signs of life -- taking genetic literacy seriously / Jon Turney.

ISBN

1840143568

LCCN

^^^98070154^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library