Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword: shopping at the genetic supermarket
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Is inheritable genetic modification the new dividing line?
- 2 The science of inheritable genetic modification
- 3 Nuclear cloning, embryonic stem cells, and gene transfer
- 4 Controlling bodies and creating monsters: popular perceptions of genetic modifications
- 5 Inheritable genetic modification as moral responsibility in a creative universe
- 6 Ethics and welfare issues in animal genetic modification
- 7 Radical rupture: exploring biologic sequelae of volitional inheritable genetic modification
- 8 “Alter-ing” the human species? Misplaced essentialism in science policy
- 9 Traditional and feminist bioethical perspectives on gene transfer: is inheritable genetic modification really the problem?
- 10 Inheritable genetic modification and disability: normality and identity
- 11 Regulating inheritable genetic modification, or policing the fertile scientific imagination? A feminist legal response
- 12 Inheritable genetic modification: clinical applications and genetic counseling considerations
- 13 Can bioethics speak to politics about the prospect of inheritable genetic modification? If so, what might it say?
- Glossary of scientific terms
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword: shopping at the genetic supermarket
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Is inheritable genetic modification the new dividing line?
- 2 The science of inheritable genetic modification
- 3 Nuclear cloning, embryonic stem cells, and gene transfer
- 4 Controlling bodies and creating monsters: popular perceptions of genetic modifications
- 5 Inheritable genetic modification as moral responsibility in a creative universe
- 6 Ethics and welfare issues in animal genetic modification
- 7 Radical rupture: exploring biologic sequelae of volitional inheritable genetic modification
- 8 “Alter-ing” the human species? Misplaced essentialism in science policy
- 9 Traditional and feminist bioethical perspectives on gene transfer: is inheritable genetic modification really the problem?
- 10 Inheritable genetic modification and disability: normality and identity
- 11 Regulating inheritable genetic modification, or policing the fertile scientific imagination? A feminist legal response
- 12 Inheritable genetic modification: clinical applications and genetic counseling considerations
- 13 Can bioethics speak to politics about the prospect of inheritable genetic modification? If so, what might it say?
- Glossary of scientific terms
- Index
Summary
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- Chapter
- Information
- The Ethics of Inheritable Genetic ModificationA Dividing Line?, pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006