Research and Markets: Increasing Concerns regarding Genetics and Gene Therapy

Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c22247) has announced the addition of Genetics and Gene Therapy to their offering

Genetics and Gene Therapy shows the wide range of the debate and the very real significance that genetics and its associated developments have for human beings, individually and collectively. Few areas of science and medicine have resulted in the volume of academic and popular literature as has genetics. The so-called revolution in understanding of the causes of disease states, and even behavioural traits, has focussed public attention on the influence of genes in making us what we are. Rapidly, however, the potential benefits of such understanding were overtaken, in the public mind at least, by the question of the possible (negative) implications of genetic knowledge and associated technologies.

The chapters in this volume show just how wide-ranging concern has become, ranging from regulation to cloning, with the fear of discrimination in between.

Part one begins with a range of general discussions of about the genetic enterprise itself, followed by consideration of some specific questions. Part two then addresses cutting edge debates in genetics.

Topics covered include:

- Human genetics: the new panacea?
- Regulation as facilitation: negotiating the genetic revolution
- Whose genome project?
- The gene genie: good fairy or wicked witch?
- Procreative liberty in the era of genomics
- Beyond Genetic Discrimination: toward the broader harm of geneticism
- What makes genetic discrimination exceptional?
- Genetic secrets and the family
- Genetic privacy
- Challenging medical-legal norms: the role of autonomy, confidentiality, and privacy in protecting individual and familial group rights in genetic information
- Genetic testing and employee protection
- Pharmacogenetics: ethical issues and policy options. Gene Therapy/Testing/Cloning
- Beware! preimplantation genetic diagnosis may solve some old problems but it also raises new ones
- Predictive genetic testing for conditions that present in childhood
- Is there a case in favour of predictive genetic testing in young children?
- Inheritable genetic modification and a brave new world: did Huxley have it wrong?
- Gene therapies and the pursuit of a better human
- Protecting the endangered human: toward an international treaty prohibiting cloning and inheritable alterations
- Goodbye Dolly? The ethics of human cloning
- Cloning and infertility
- Should we clone human beings? Cloning as a source of tissue for transplantation
- Going to the Roots of the stem cell controversy
- Stem cells, sex, and procreation
- Stem cells, superman, and the report of the select committee

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Laura Wood
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