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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822082403321

Autore

Parker Michael <1958->

Titolo

Ethical problems and genetics practice / / Michael Parker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-139-36637-8

1-107-23139-6

1-280-64769-8

9786613633743

1-139-37896-1

1-139-10779-8

1-139-37610-1

1-139-37753-1

1-139-37211-4

1-139-38039-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 171 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge bioethics and law

Classificazione

LAW046000

Disciplina

616/.042

Soggetti

Human chromosome abnormalities - Diagnosis - Moral and ethical aspects

Genetic disorders - Diagnosis - Moral and ethical aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Patient in the families -- Elective affinities -- Reproducting ethics -- Multi-professional practices -- Moral craft -- Methodological reflections.

Sommario/riassunto

Ethical Problems and Genetics Practice provides a rich, case-based account of the ethical issues arising in the genetics clinic and laboratory. By analysing a wide range of evocative and often arresting cases from practice, Michael Parker provides a compelling insight into the complex moral world of the contemporary genetics professional and the challenges they face in the care of patients and their families. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the ethical issues arising in everyday genetics practice. Ethical Problems and Genetics Practice is also a sustained engagement with the relationships



between bioethics and social science. In proposing and exemplifying a new approach to bioethics, it makes a significant contribution to debates on methods and interdisciplinarity and will therefore also appeal to all those concerned with theoretical and methodological approaches to bioethics and social science.