Splicing Life

Author : United States. President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research
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Total Pages : 128 pages
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Author : Peter Glasner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351898493
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Splicing Life? written by Peter Glasner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geno-technology is a technology unlike any other, with significant implications for life in the 21st century. It directly affects us at a deeply personal level, it poses a threat to the boundaries which conventionally define selfhood, it generates potentially novel risks and dangers, and it threatens the very basis of accepted understandings of culture and society. This unique, exploratory volume discusses the ethical, cultural and philosophical issues surrounding the search for the 'book of life', focusing on the mapping of the human genome in Britain, the USA and Europe. It examines the impact of genetically modified crops, food and pharmacogenomics, along with the science and technology policy issues deriving from the human genome project. The authors investigate the potential risks and implications of the new genetics and conclude with a discussion of how nature may be reconfigured to underpin developments in health, commerce, state regulation and the law, both on a local and global scale.

Author : United States. President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
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Download or read book Splicing Life written by United States. President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Glasner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351898485
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Splicing Life? written by Peter Glasner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geno-technology is a technology unlike any other, with significant implications for life in the 21st century. It directly affects us at a deeply personal level, it poses a threat to the boundaries which conventionally define selfhood, it generates potentially novel risks and dangers, and it threatens the very basis of accepted understandings of culture and society. This unique, exploratory volume discusses the ethical, cultural and philosophical issues surrounding the search for the 'book of life', focusing on the mapping of the human genome in Britain, the USA and Europe. It examines the impact of genetically modified crops, food and pharmacogenomics, along with the science and technology policy issues deriving from the human genome project. The authors investigate the potential risks and implications of the new genetics and conclude with a discussion of how nature may be reconfigured to underpin developments in health, commerce, state regulation and the law, both on a local and global scale.

Author : President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research.
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Total Pages : 130 pages
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Download or read book Splicing Life. A Report on the Social and Ethical Issues of Genetic Engineering with Human Beings. November 1982. written by President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research. and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Byron L. Sherwin
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815624905
Total Pages : 320 pages
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Download or read book In Partnership with God written by Byron L. Sherwin and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel agenda and methodology for contemporary Jewish scholarship and applies them to a variety of theological, Ethcal and legal issues, including medical ethics. provides an integration of biblical, rabbinic and mystical thinking.

Author : United States. President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
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Download or read book Summing Up written by United States. President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 746 pages
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Download or read book Recombinant DNA Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erik Parens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190940387
Total Pages : 240 pages
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Download or read book Human Flourishing in an Age of Gene Editing written by Erik Parens and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International uproar followed the recent announcement of the birth of twin girls whose genomes had been edited with a breakthrough DNA editing-technology. This technology, called clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeats or CRISPR-Cas9, can alter any DNA, including DNA in embryos, meaning that changes can be passed to the offspring of the person that embryo becomes. Should we use gene editing technologies to change ourselves, our children, and future generations to come? The potential uses of CRISPR-Cas9 and other gene editing technologies are unprecedented in human history. By using these technologies, we eradicate certain dreadful diseases. Altering human DNA, however, raises enormously difficult questions. Some of these questions are about safety: Can these technologies be deployed without posing an unreasonable risk of physical harm to current and future generations? Can all physical risks be adequately assessed, and responsibly managed? But gene editing technologies also raise other moral questions, which touch on deeply held, personal, cultural, and societal values: Might such technologies redefine what it means to be healthy, or normal, or cherished? Might they undermine relationships between parents and children, or exacerbate the gap between the haves and have-nots? The broadest form of this second kind of question is the focus of this book: What might gene editing--and related technologies--mean for human flourishing? In the new essays collected here, an interdisciplinary group of scholars asks age--old questions about the nature and well-being of humans in the context of a revolutionary new biotechnology--one that has the potential to change the genetic make-up of both existing people and future generations. Welcoming readers who study related issues and those not yet familiar with the formal study of bioethics, the authors of these essays open up a conversation about the ethics of gene editing. It is through this conversation that citizens can influence laws and the distribution of funding for science and medicine, that professional leaders can shape understanding and use of gene editing and related technologies by scientists, patients, and practitioners, and that individuals can make decisions about their own lives and the lives of their families.

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 030917676X
Total Pages : 559 pages
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Download or read book Society's Choices written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1995-02-27 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breakthroughs in biomedicine often lead to new life-giving treatments but may also raise troubling, even life-and-death, quandaries. Society's Choices discusses ways for people to handle today's bioethics issues in the context of America's unique history and cultureâ€"and from the perspectives of various interest groups. The book explores how Americans have grappled with specific aspects of bioethics through commission deliberations, programs by organizations, and other mechanisms and identifies criteria for evaluating the outcomes of these efforts. The committee offers recommendations on the role of government and professional societies, the function of commissions and institutional review boards, and bioethics in health professional education and research. The volume includes a series of 12 superb background papers on public moral discourse, mechanisms for handling social and ethical dilemmas, and other specific areas of controversy by well-known experts Ronald Bayer, Martin Benjamin, Dan W. Brock, Baruch A. Brody, H. Alta Charo, Lawrence Gostin, Bradford H. Gray, Kathi E. Hanna, Elizabeth Heitman, Thomas Nagel, Steven Shapin, and Charles M. Swezey.