This volume employs philosophical and historical perspectives to shed light on classic social, ethical, and philosophical issues raised with renewed urgency against the backdrop of the mapping of the human genome. Philosophers and historians of science and medicine, ethicists, and those interested in the reciprocal influence of science and other cultural practices will find the arguments and observations offered fascinating and indispensable.
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The year 2000 marked what is now being called "the century of the gene" (Keller, 2000), and 2003 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the "discovery" of the double helix. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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The year 2000 marked what is now being called "the century of the gene" (Keller, 2000), and 2003 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the "discovery" of the double helix. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
expressivist objection, fetal identity, positive molecular eugenics, genotypic prevention, mutating concepts, strong genetic determinism, overzealous doctor, exceptionalist view, disability theorists, prenatal therapy, personal tragedy model, sociobiological account, suffering argument, strong potentiality, reducing explanation, genetics research program, strong determinism, younger biologists, deliberative agency, exceptionalist arguments, genetic essentialism, worthwhile existence, impersonal considerations, reduced explanation, behavior geneticists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Oxford University Press, United States, Cambridge University Press, Oskar Vogt, Kluwer Academic Publishers, New England Journal of Medicine, Evolving Disciplines, Hastings Center Report, Princeton University Press, University of Chicago Press, Harvard University Press, Preconception Testing, Gregor Mendel, Pregnancy Testing, President's Commission, World War, Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of the History of Biology, William Bateson, American Journal of Human Genetics, Clarendon Press, Georgetown University Press, Journal of Medical Ethics, Soviet Union New!
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- Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics series) by Erik Parens on page 210, page 212, and page 264
- Christian Marriage: Casti Connumbii by Pius XI on page 88, and page 104
- Dangerous Diagnostics: The Social Power of Biological Information by Dorothy Nelkin on page 265, and page 286
- Introduction to Genetics by A.H. Sturtevant on page 78, and page 84
- The Odyssey of Homer (Bantam Classics) by Homer on page 143, and page 163
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- Elisha Bartlett's Philosophy of Medicine (Philosophy and Medicine / Classics of Medical Ethics) by W.E. Stempsey in Back Matter
- Reframing Disease Contextually (Philosophy and Medicine) by Mary Ann Gardell Cutter in Back Matter
- The Philosophical Diseases of Medicine and Their Cure: Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine, Vol. 1: Foundations (Philosophy and Medicine) by Josef Seifert in Back Matter
- Research Ethics (Routledge Annals of Bioethics) by Ana Smith Iltis on page 60
- Scientific Evidence: Philosophical Theories and Applications by Peter Achinstein on page 258
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