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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823680303321

Titolo

Law and human genetics : regulating a revolution / / edited by Roger Brownsword, W.R. Cornish, Margaret Llewelyn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; Portland : , : Hart Publishing, , 1998

ISBN

1-4742-0038-9

1-281-04179-3

9786611041793

1-84731-296-9

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 pages)

Disciplina

344/.04196

Soggetti

Genetic disorders

Human chromosome abnormalities - Diagnosis - Law and legislation

Medical genetics - Law and legislation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Half Title Page; Title Page; Title verso; Contents; Human Genetics and the Law: Regulating a Revolution; A Commission for the 21st Century; Human Genetics: The New Panacea?; Regulation as Facilitation: Negotiating the Genetic Revolution; Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Human Genetics; Interventions in the Human Genome; Family Law and Genetics; Insurance and Genetics: The Current State of Play; 'I Blame the Parents': Fitting New Genes in Old Criminal Laws; The Inscription of Life in Law: Genes, Patents, and Bio-politics; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"As developments in human genetics proceed apace,the regulation of genetic research and its applications is set to represent one of the major legal challenges of the next century. At every turn - in the fields of medicine and commerce, in insurance and employment, in the family and even in the criminal justice system - advances in human genetics threaten to transform our understanding of ourselves and the basis upon which we relate to one another. This special issue of the Modern Law Review addresses a range of key issues - conceptual, ethical, political and practical - arising from the regulatory challenge confronting the law in the face of the genetic revolution."--Bloomsbury



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