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Justice and the Human Genome Project

Justice and the Human Genome Project

Hardcover

PhilosophyMedical Reference

ISBN10: 0520414659
ISBN13: 9780520414655
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Jun 12 2024
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 diseases 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. Lucid and wide-ranging, these contributions will interest bioethicists, legal scholars, and policy makers.

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