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Genetics and ethics in global perspective

Title
Genetics and ethics in global perspective / by Dorothy C. Wertz and John C. Fletcher.
Author
Wertz, Dorothy C.
Publication
Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©2004.

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Description
x, 474 pages; 25 cm.
Summary
"Genetics and Ethics in Global Perspectives is of interest to medical geneticists, genetic counselors, social scientists and anthropologists who study cross-cultural issues, bioethicists and bioethics centers and health policy makers."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine ; v. 17
Uniform Title
International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine ; v. 17.
Subject
  • Human genetics > Social aspects
  • Human genetics > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Medical genetics > Social aspects
  • Medical genetics > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Bioethics
  • Cross-cultural studies
  • Genetics, Medical > ethics
  • Bioethical Issues
  • Cross-Cultural Comparison
  • Cross-cultural studies
  • Bioethics
  • Human genetics > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Human genetics > Social aspects
  • Medical genetics > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Medical genetics > Social aspects
  • Genetica
  • Ethische aspecten
  • Erfelijkheid
  • Gentechnologie > Ethik > Internationaler Vergleich
  • Humangenetik > Ethik > Internationaler Vergleich
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. The 36-Nation Survey -- 2. Global inequity -- 3. The rise of autonomy -- 4. Counseling: directive and nondirective -- 5. Is modern genetics eugenics? -- 6. Genetics as a family affair -- 7. Privacy, discrimination, and public health -- 8. The geography of ethical reasoning -- 9. Geneticists speak out: culture, ethics, and history -- 10. Organization of genetic services -- 11. Laws affecting genetic services -- 12. China: views of a bioethicist -- 13. China: views of a geneticist -- 14. Germany -- 15. Hungarian TV viewers' responses -- 16. India -- 17. Japan -- 18. Peru -- 19. From genetics to genomics and beyond -- 20. Moral priorities, cases and practices in medical genetics.
ISBN
  • 9781402017681
  • 1402017685
LCCN
2005279571
OCLC
  • ocm54610942
  • 54610942
  • SCSB-9621829
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library