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Ethics and law in biological research.
Title:
Ethics and law in biological research.
Author:
Mazzoni, C.M.
ISBN:
9789047403067
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (273 pages)
Contents:
Table of Contents -- Foreword -- I. THE LIMITS OF SCIENCE AND BIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION -- Ethics and Law in Biological Research -- Human Genome Technology from the Viewpoint of Efficiency and Justice -- The Human Genome Project and the Geneticists' Responsibility -- Human Dignity as a Regulative Instrument for Human Genome Research -- Bioethical Anxieties Concerning the Limits of Biological Research -- The Perception of Possible Knowledge and Changes in Common Morality -- Information and Decision -- Biomedical Law: The Aims and Limits of Regulating Biomedical Science and Technology -- The Epistemic State - The Legal Regulation of Science -- II. CLONING: BIOLOGICAL AND MORAL ASPECTS -- Some Fundamental Evils in Generating Human Embryos by Cloning -- Thinking About Huxley's Brave New World: Was it Wrong to Create a Genetic Hierarchical Society? Is it Wrong to Prevent One? -- From Random Procreation to Standardized Reproduction -- The Problem of Reproductive Cloning -- The Point of View of a Medical Geneticist on Human Cloning -- The Mystery of the Scantiness of Arguments Against Cloning -- Making the Right Use of Law: The Cloning Dilemma -- The Right to Genetic Disobedience: The Iceland Case -- Medicine as Science and Art: Anxieties at the Dawn of the Third Millenium -- Clones and Golems -- III. CLONING IN POPULAR IMAGINATION -- Doppelganger Temptations -- After Dolly: New Forms of Genetics Capital -- Cloning and Balanced Ethics -- The Future of Clones -- Cloning: Taboo Subject for Public Debate in France -- Nude Pigs and Headless Clones -- Dolly and déjà vu: Facts and Fiction about Human Cloning -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
Abstract:
Many people feel strongly about their right to contribute to an accurate assessment of the effects of science on society. This collection of essays reflect on a range of different cultural experiences and ethical underpinnings. The main subject is cloning.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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