ABSTRACT
Ethical and practical issues around genetic research are of major international concern, both in academia and in the public domain. Questions concerning what interventions are possible and appropriate with the increasing amount of genetic information available, challenge our understandings of ourselves, our health and wellbeing, and the role of medical ethics, public health, surveillance and risk. However there has been little reflection on the socio-political effects of this new genetic knowledge and the changes in practice that are currently impacting on our lives.
Containing contributions from key international researchers, this book examines the broader issues of genetic debates and looks at how prediction and risk assessment is being changed in the arenas of health, medicine and reproduction, bringing new insight on the dangers of surveillance, regulation and increased inequality. Developed out of the Taylor and Francis journal Critical Public Health, the book considers the implications of developments in genetics for contemporary liberal governance, as well as for the future of healthcare and public health.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|61 pages
Ethics, risk and governance
chapter Chapter 1|15 pages
Ethics of clinical genetics
chapter Chapter 2|17 pages
Risk management and ethics in high-tech antenatal care
chapter Chapter 3|14 pages
The first genetic screening in Finland
chapter Chapter 4|14 pages
Choice as responsibility
part II|55 pages
Risk, population and identity
chapter Chapter 6|14 pages
The sociology of the new genetics
chapter Chapter 7|14 pages
Whose right to choose?
chapter Chapter 8|15 pages
‘New’ genetics meets the old underclass
part III|51 pages
Knowledge, governance and the future