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From Chance to Choice
Genetics and Justice
Allen Buchanan, Dan W. Brock, Norman Daniels, Daniel Wikler
January 2002 | Paperback | 412 pages 1 line diagram | ISBN: 0521669774
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This book, written by four internationally renowned bioethicists, is the first systematic treatment of the fundamental ethical issues underlying the application of genetic technologies to human beings. Probing the implications of the remarkable advances in genetics, the authors ask how should these affect our understanding of distributive justice, equality of opportunity, the rights and obligations as parents, the meaning of disability, and the role of the concept of human nature in ethical theory and practice. The book offers a historical context to contemporary debate over the use of these technologies by examining the eugenics movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The questions raised in this book will be of interest to any reflective reader concerned about science and society and the rapid development of biotechnology, as well as to professionals in such areas as philosophy, bioethics, medical ethics, health management, law, and political science.
Reviews
? it should be read by anyone who wants to think well as a citizen about choices that we must increasingly make about our future and the future of our descendants? Martha Nussbaum, The New Republic
?nyone grappling with the extraordinarily difficult problems raised by genetic and reproductive technologies must take this book as a central text.?R. C. Lewontin, Harvard University, Author of Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA
? A benchmark treatise ?a succinct and concise statement of the questions that will confront society as genetic techniques and interventions become commonplace in the years ahead.?The New England Journal of Medicine
? Notable both for the breadth of the questions posed and the depth of the potential responses ?a much needed and well reasoned ethical compass for future journeys into genetics and genomics.?Francis S. Collins, Director, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Washington, D.C.
?f you are interested in the ethical issues surrounding the current and possible future applications of human genetics, then you will want to read this book. It is lengthy and dense, being closely argued, but it is clearly written and does not suffer from the usual problems of multi-author books. the authorial team has clearly taken great pains to argue a consistent view in stylistically consistent prose.?Human Genetics
?his book is filled with clear, nuanced and enlightening arguments. Even where one finds oneself disagreeing with the authors, one profits from their analysis and discussion ?readers will be well rewarded.?The Philosophical Quarterly
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