Justice and the Human Genome Project - Couverture rigide

Murphy, Timothy F.; Lappé, Marc A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520083636 ISBN 13 : 9780520083639

Editeur : University of California Press, 1994

Synopsis

The Human Genome Project is an expensive, ambitious and controversial attempt to locate and map every one of the approximately 100,000 genes in the human body. If it works, and we are able, for instance, to identify markers for genetic disease long before they develop, who will have the right to obtain such information? What will be the consequences for health care, health insurance, employability and research priorities? And, more broadly, how will attitudes toward human differences be affected, morally and socially, by the setting of a genetic "standard"? The compatibility of individual rights and genetic fairness is challenged by the technological possibilities of the future, making it difficult to create an agenda for a "just genetics." Beginning with an account of the utopian dreams and authoritarian tendencies of historical eugenics movements, this book's nine essays probe the potential social uses and abuses of detailed genetic information.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Timothy F. Murphy is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Biomedical Sciences and Marc A. Lappé is Professor of Health Policy and Ethics at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. Murphy is co-editor of Writing AIDS: Gay Literature, Language and Analysis (1992), and Lappé is the author of Chemical Deception (1991).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520083636
• ISBN 13: 9780520083639
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 178
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible