Genes and Morality : New Essays /
Genes and Morality : New Essays /
New Essays
edited by Veikko Launis, Juhani Pietarinen, Juha Raikka.
- 1 online resource.
- Value Inquiry Book Series ; 83 .
- Value Inquiry Book Series ; 83. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Editorial Foreword / Acknowledgements / Introduction / Methodological and Theoretical Issues / What the Fox Would Have Said, Had He Been a Hedgehog: On the Methodology and Normative Approach of John Harris's Wonderwoman and Superman / Does it Matter when We Begin to Exist? / Can We Do Wrong by Bringing Children into Being? / Impersonal Morality: A Defense / Principles of Health Care Ethics: Solution or Problem? / On the Morality of Avoiding Information / Practical Issues / Genome Analysis and Responsibility for Health / Genetic Information and Care / The Genetic Dissection of Complex Traits / Genetic Health and Genetic Disease / Patenting Non-Human and Human Life / Hubris and Hybrids in the Myth of Frankenstein / Translating the Human Genome Project into Social Policy: A Model for Participatory Democracy / Notes on Contributors / Index / VIBS / Titles Published / Matti Häyry -- Veikko Launis , Juhani Pietarinen , and Juha Räikkä -- Veikko Launis , Juhani Pietarinen , and Juha Räikkä -- Veikko Launis , Juhani Pietarinen , and Juha Räikkä -- Matti Häyry -- Ingmar Persson -- Sirkku Kristiina Hellsten -- Torbjörn Tännsjö -- Søren Holm -- Juha Räikkä -- Veikko Launis , Juhani Pietarinen , and Juha Räikkä -- John Harris -- Ingmar Pörn -- Angus Clarke -- Rogeer Hoedemaekers and Henk ten Have -- Juhani Pietarinen and Veikko Launis -- Christoph Rehmann-Sutter -- Gregory L. Fowler and Michael J. Garland -- Veikko Launis , Juhani Pietarinen , and Juha Räikkä -- Veikko Launis , Juhani Pietarinen , and Juha Räikkä -- Veikko Launis , Juhani Pietarinen , and Juha Räikkä -- Veikko Launis , Juhani Pietarinen , and Juha Räikkä.
Most public discussion has focused on those effects of genetic research that are considered in some way unwanted or unpleasant. For example, there has been much debate concerning the risks and the ethical appropriateness of genetic screening, gene therapy, and agricultural applications based on genetic techniques. It often claimed that genetic research may cause new problems such as genetic discrimination, stigmatization, environmental risks, or mistreatment of animals. Genes and Morality: New Essays adopts a critical attitude toward genetic research, on both a theoretical and a practical level. It presents some of the most important problems in the ethics of genetic engineering, including the questions of genetic health and disease, genetic testing, responsibility for health, patenting non-human and human life, and problems related to the disclosure of genetic information. The aim of the book is to focus on real ethical and conceptual issues. Consider, for instance, the concept of genetic disease. As one of the contributors, Ingmar Pörn, writes, fear of genetic disease, or anxiety, is not itself a disease any more than fear of becoming unemployed is a disease. Alleviating such emotions is not a medical task to be discharged by drug therapy. The book also examines the philosophical foundations of these issues by discussing the most influential bioethical theories of today, including utilitarianism and principlism.
9789004433588 9789042006966
10.1163/9789004433588 DOI
Eugenics--Moral and ethical aspects.
Genetic engineering--Moral and ethical aspects.
Bioethics.
HQ755.3
176
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Editorial Foreword / Acknowledgements / Introduction / Methodological and Theoretical Issues / What the Fox Would Have Said, Had He Been a Hedgehog: On the Methodology and Normative Approach of John Harris's Wonderwoman and Superman / Does it Matter when We Begin to Exist? / Can We Do Wrong by Bringing Children into Being? / Impersonal Morality: A Defense / Principles of Health Care Ethics: Solution or Problem? / On the Morality of Avoiding Information / Practical Issues / Genome Analysis and Responsibility for Health / Genetic Information and Care / The Genetic Dissection of Complex Traits / Genetic Health and Genetic Disease / Patenting Non-Human and Human Life / Hubris and Hybrids in the Myth of Frankenstein / Translating the Human Genome Project into Social Policy: A Model for Participatory Democracy / Notes on Contributors / Index / VIBS / Titles Published / Matti Häyry -- Veikko Launis , Juhani Pietarinen , and Juha Räikkä -- Veikko Launis , Juhani Pietarinen , and Juha Räikkä -- Veikko Launis , Juhani Pietarinen , and Juha Räikkä -- Matti Häyry -- Ingmar Persson -- Sirkku Kristiina Hellsten -- Torbjörn Tännsjö -- Søren Holm -- Juha Räikkä -- Veikko Launis , Juhani Pietarinen , and Juha Räikkä -- John Harris -- Ingmar Pörn -- Angus Clarke -- Rogeer Hoedemaekers and Henk ten Have -- Juhani Pietarinen and Veikko Launis -- Christoph Rehmann-Sutter -- Gregory L. Fowler and Michael J. Garland -- Veikko Launis , Juhani Pietarinen , and Juha Räikkä -- Veikko Launis , Juhani Pietarinen , and Juha Räikkä -- Veikko Launis , Juhani Pietarinen , and Juha Räikkä -- Veikko Launis , Juhani Pietarinen , and Juha Räikkä.
Most public discussion has focused on those effects of genetic research that are considered in some way unwanted or unpleasant. For example, there has been much debate concerning the risks and the ethical appropriateness of genetic screening, gene therapy, and agricultural applications based on genetic techniques. It often claimed that genetic research may cause new problems such as genetic discrimination, stigmatization, environmental risks, or mistreatment of animals. Genes and Morality: New Essays adopts a critical attitude toward genetic research, on both a theoretical and a practical level. It presents some of the most important problems in the ethics of genetic engineering, including the questions of genetic health and disease, genetic testing, responsibility for health, patenting non-human and human life, and problems related to the disclosure of genetic information. The aim of the book is to focus on real ethical and conceptual issues. Consider, for instance, the concept of genetic disease. As one of the contributors, Ingmar Pörn, writes, fear of genetic disease, or anxiety, is not itself a disease any more than fear of becoming unemployed is a disease. Alleviating such emotions is not a medical task to be discharged by drug therapy. The book also examines the philosophical foundations of these issues by discussing the most influential bioethical theories of today, including utilitarianism and principlism.
9789004433588 9789042006966
10.1163/9789004433588 DOI
Eugenics--Moral and ethical aspects.
Genetic engineering--Moral and ethical aspects.
Bioethics.
HQ755.3
176