Genes And Future People
Philosophical Issues In Human Genetics
Seiten
2001
Westview Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8133-6576-3 (ISBN)
Westview Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8133-6576-3 (ISBN)
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Advances in genetics will make it possible to intervene in human biological development in ways that will give us considerable control over our personal properties. This study examines how genes determine our lives, as well as the moral implications implicit in the manipulation of genes.
This work is a sustained philosophical reflection on some of the metaphysical and moral issues presented by genetics and different forms of genetic intervention. Advances in genetics will make it possible to intervene in human biological development in ways that will give us considerable control over our personal properties and the length and quality of our lives, and the lives of those we bring into existence. This study examines how genes determine our lives, as well as the moral implications implicit in the manipulation of genes: how will intervention benefit or harm the people we cause to exist in the near future?
This work is a sustained philosophical reflection on some of the metaphysical and moral issues presented by genetics and different forms of genetic intervention. Advances in genetics will make it possible to intervene in human biological development in ways that will give us considerable control over our personal properties and the length and quality of our lives, and the lives of those we bring into existence. This study examines how genes determine our lives, as well as the moral implications implicit in the manipulation of genes: how will intervention benefit or harm the people we cause to exist in the near future?
Walter Glannon received a BA from Duke University, a PhD in Spanish Literature from the Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in philosophy from Yale University. He has been a Killam Post-doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia, a Fellow at the Institute for Ethics of the American Medical Association, and a Fellow at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago. He is Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Ethics Unit, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University and Clinical Ethicist at the Jewish General Hospital, Montreal.
| Sprache | englisch |
|---|---|
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie | |
| Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8133-6576-7 / 0813365767 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8133-6576-3 / 9780813365763 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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