The Moral, Social, and Commercial Imperatives of Genetic Testing and Screening The Australian Case
This is a dynamic book that successfully combines global and local thinking with regard to an emerging technology that will contribute to the expansion of proteomics and pharmacogenomics, the science of tailored healthcare and treatments. Genetic testing and screening will change the way people unde...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2006, 2006
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2006 |
Series: | International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Positioning
- From Destiny to Freedom? On Human Nature and Liberal Eugenics in the Age of Genetic Manipulation
- Diagnostic Knowledge in the Genetic Economy and Commerce
- The Australian Case
- Body Talk: Genetic Screening as a Device of Crime Regulation
- Genetic Testing and Human Genetic Databases
- The Imperative of the "New Genetics": Challenges for Ethics, Law, and Social Policy
- Insurance and Genetics: Regulating a Private Market in the Public Interest
- The Social Imperative for Community Genetic Screening: An Australian Perspective
- Genetically Transformed Healthcare: Healthy Children and Parents
- The Australian Law Reform Inquiry into Genetic Commission Testing - A Worker's Perspective
- Genetic Information and the Australian Labour Movement
- Protecting the Vulnerable: Genetic Testing and Screening for Parentage, Immigration, and Aboriginality
- Essentially Whose? Genetic Testing and the Ownership of Genetic Information
- Future Perspective
- Self-Knowledge and Self-Care in the Age of Genetic Manipulation
- Conclusion
- Conclusion