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Human genomics : prospects for health care and public policy.
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ISBN: 1902672135 9781902672137 Year: 1999 Publisher: London University college London

The human genome project and the future of health care.
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ISBN: 0253332133 Year: 1996 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana university press

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This book examines how the Human Genome Project will reshape American health care. Leading scholars explore the clinical, ethical, legal, and policy implications of the Genome Project to see how it may affect the forms of health care available, who delivers it, who receives it, and who pays for it. Genetic prediction of future diseases - whether ineluctable certainties such as Huntington's, or uncertain "predispositions" for cancers, heart disease, and the like - will affect how patients and health professionals interact. It may force major reconsideration of certain institutions - such as health, life, and disability insurance - that rely on information about individuals' risks of illness and death. We may question what valid social purposes those institutions play and whether they are likely to become socially and ethically dysfunctional in light of the more extensive predictions that genetic information may make possible.


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Manipulations génétiques
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ISBN: 2130482546 9782130482543 Year: 1997 Volume: 3152. Publisher: Paris Presses Universitaires de France

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Nées dans la tourmente et le doute, les manipulations génétiques inquiètent, leur essor fantastique les a menées aux portes de l'humain. Les chercheurs et les médecins se contenteront-ils de soigner l'homme par les gènes et de soigner les gènes eux-mêmes ou bien céderont-ils à la tentation de modifier le programme humain pour créer un autre modèle ?


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Genoom : het recept voor een mens.
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ISBN: 9025495842 Year: 1999 Publisher: Amsterdam Contact

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In het genoom, de verzamelde genetische informatie van een levend wezen, liggen de antwoorden op vragen als: wat bepaalt de groei en de ontwikkeling van een organisme? Waarom wordt het lichaam oud en sterft het? In hoeverre zijn ons gedrag en persoonlijkheid genetisch bepaald? Zit ons bewustzijn in het DNA besloten? De kennis van het genoom van de mens houdt in dat daarmee letterlijk het recept voor een mens bekend zal zijn. Dit zal het beeld van onszelf voorgoed veranderen. Matt Ridley legt in dit boek uit wat het onderzoek naar het genoom inhoudt, en ook welke gevaren er zijn. Hij geeft ook inzicht in de functie van verschillende genen en hoe ze werken.

Genetics and reductionism
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ISBN: 0521637139 0521631467 9780521637138 1139173219 Year: 1998 Volume: *3 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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With the advent of the Human Genome Project there have been many claims for the genetic origins of complex human behavior including insanity, criminality, and intelligence. But what does it really mean to call something 'genetic'? This is the fundamental question that Sahotra Sarkar's book addresses. The author analyses the nature of reductionism in classical and molecular genetics. He shows that there are two radically different kinds of reductionist explanation: genetic reduction (as found in classical genetics) and physical reduction (found in molecular genetics). This important book clarifies the meaning of the term 'genetic', shows how molecular studies have affected genetics, and provides the philosophical background necessary to understand the debates over the Human Genome Project. It will be of particular interest to professionals and students in the philosophy of science, the history of science, and the social studies of science, medicine, and technology.

Genes and morality : new essays
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ISBN: 904200696X 9004433589 Year: 1999 Volume: 83 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Atlanta, Georgia : Rodopi,

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Most public discussion has focused on those effects of genetic research that are considered in some way unwanted or unpleasant. For example, there has been much debate concerning the risks and the ethical appropriateness of genetic screening, gene therapy, and agricultural applications based on genetic techniques. It often claimed that genetic research may cause new problems such as genetic discrimination, stigmatization, environmental risks, or mistreatment of animals. Genes and Morality: New Essays adopts a critical attitude toward genetic research, on both a theoretical and a practical level. It presents some of the most important problems in the ethics of genetic engineering, including the questions of genetic health and disease, genetic testing, responsibility for health, patenting non-human and human life, and problems related to the disclosure of genetic information. The aim of the book is to focus on real ethical and conceptual issues. Consider, for instance, the concept of genetic disease. As one of the contributors, Ingmar Prn, writes, fear of genetic disease, or anxiety, is not itself a disease any more than fear of becoming unemployed is a disease. Alleviating such emotions is not a medical task to be discharged by drug therapy. The book also examines the philosophical foundations of these issues by discussing the most influential bioethical theories of today, including utilitarianism and principlism.


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Les empreintes génétiques.
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ISBN: 2130508219 9782130508212 Year: 2000 Volume: 3569 Publisher: Paris PUF

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Le développement de la connaissance du génome rend de plus en plus performante l'interprétation des résultats biologiques de l'étude du polymorphisme de l'ADN, confirmant l'individualité biologique de l'être.


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Human genomics.
ISSN: 14797364 Year: 2003 Publisher: [London] : [London] : Henry Stewart Publications, BioMed Central

Access to the genome : the challenge to equality.
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ISBN: 0878406786 0878406778 Year: 1998 Publisher: Washington (D.C.) Georgetown university press

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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. This book explores 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. This book explains, in terms that can be understood by the general reader, how DNA works, what the Human Genome Project is, what these genetic technologies are and what they promise, and how they could disrupt our democratic society.


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Instant notes in genetics.
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ISBN: 1859961665 Year: 2000 Publisher: Oxford BIOS scientific publ.

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