Mutating Concepts, Evolving Disciplines: Genetics, Medicine, and Society
Advances in genetics, such as the Human Genome Project's successful mapping of the human genome and the discovery of ever more sites of disease-related mutations, invite re-examination of basic concepts underlying our fundamental social practices and institutions. Having children, assigning res...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2002, 2002
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2002 |
| Series: | Philosophy and Medicine
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- One: Historical Reflections on Core Concepts
- The Classical Gene: Its Nature and Its Legacy
- Dissolving Dominance
- Flies, Genes, and Brains: Oskar Vogt, Nicolai Timofeeff-Ressovsky, and the Origin of the Concepts of Penetrance and Expressivity
- From Reproductive Responsibility to Reproductive Autonomy
- Two: Perspectives from the Philosophy of Science
- Understanding Genetic Causation and Its Implications for Ethical Issues Concerning Medical Genetics
- Reduction Reconceptualized: Cystic Fibrosis as a Paradigm Case for Molecular Medicine
- Scylla and Charybdis: Adaptationism, Reductionism, and the Fallacy of Equating Race with Disease
- Behavior as Affliction: Common Frameworks of Behavior Genetics and Its Rivals
- Three: Explorations of Ethical, Social, and Legal Consequences
- The Morality of Prenatal Testing and Selective Abortion: Clarifying the Expressivist Objection
- Meliorism at the Millennium: Positive Molecular Eugenics and the Promise of Progress without Excess
- Personal Identity and the Moral Appraisal of Prenatal Therapy
- Conceptual and Moral Problems of Genetic and Non-Genetic Preventive Interventions
- Unraveling the Codes: The Dialectic between Knowledge of the Moral Person and Knowledge of the Genetic Person in Criminal Law
- Notes on Contributors