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Law and Human Genetics : Regulating a Revolution.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 1998Copyright date: ©1998Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (186 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781847312969
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Law and Human GeneticsDDC classification:
  • 344.41/04196
LOC classification:
  • K3611.G46L39 1998
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: This issue addresses conceptual, ethical, political and practical issues confronting the law in the face of the genetic revolution.
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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.

This issue addresses conceptual, ethical, political and practical issues confronting the law in the face of the genetic revolution.

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