Brownsword, Roger. <br/><br/>
Law and Human Genetics :  Regulating a Revolution. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (186 pages) 
<br/><br/>Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Title verso -- Contents -- Human Genetics and the Law: Regulating a Revolution -- A Commission for the 21st Century -- The Human Genetics Advisory Commission -- Challenges faced by the HGAC -- Conclusion -- Human Genetics: The New Panacea? -- Genetic and biological advances -- 'Genetic disease' -- Genetic testing and screening -- Gene therapy -- Xenotransplantation -- Cloning -- Development of therapeutic agents -- Conclusion -- Regulation as Facilitation: Negotiating the Genetic Revolution -- Regulation: structural, cognitive and communicative dimensions -- Regulating GMOs and GEPs -- Human and medical genetics -- Rights to exploit genetic material -- Facilitating regulation: towards negotiation and integration -- Conclusions: facilitating integration and its implications -- Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Human Genetics -- Human dignity and international human rights instruments -- Two concepts of human dignity -- Human dignity: a duty-led interpretation -- Human dignity: a rights-led (Gewirthian) interpretation -- Rights, dignity and human genetics -- Conclusion -- Interventions in the Human Genome -- Family Law and Genetics -- Parenthood -- Sex selection -- Identity -- Surrogacy -- Consent -- Cloning -- Marriage -- Preimplantation genetic diagnosis -- Welfare of the child -- Conclusion -- Insurance and Genetics: The Current State of Play -- Personal insurance: solidarity and mutuality -- Insurance and genetic information -- Health insurance: the US debate -- Life insurance: the UK debate -- Other personal insurance: the coming debate -- 'I Blame the Parents': Fitting New Genes in Old Criminal Laws -- Genes and 'knowledge' -- 'Criminal behaviour' -- Criminal law and risk society -- Thinking about responsibility -- Notes of conclusion -- The Inscription of Life in Law: Genes, Patents, and Bio-politics. The Inscription of Life in Law: Genes, Patents, and Bio-politics -- An invented virus? -- Commodification as co-variation -- The uses of 'bio-colonialism' -- Index. 
<br/><br/> This issue addresses conceptual, ethical, political and practical issues confronting the law in the face of the genetic revolution. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781847312969 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human genetics -- Law and legislation.<br/>Human genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects.<br/>Medical genetics -- Law and legislation.<br/>Medical genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects.<br/>Genetic engineering -- Law and legislation.<br/>Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>K3611.G46L39 1998 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>344.41/04196