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The ethics of genetic commerce [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Robert W. Kolb



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Titolo: The ethics of genetic commerce [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Robert W. Kolb Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2007
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 p.)
Disciplina: 174
174.26
Soggetto topico: Genetic engineering industry
Genetic engineering - Moral and ethical aspects
Genetic screening
Genetically modified foods
Altri autori: KolbRobert W. <1949->  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: The Ethics of Genetic Commerce; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Part I: Genetic Screening; 1. Is a Genetics Screening Program for Job Applicants Ethical? An Analysis of the Conditions Necessary for Requiring Genetic Screenings in the Hiring Process; 2. The Business Ethics of Genetic Screening; 3. Genetic Commerce: The Challenges for Human Resource Management; 4. Geneticize Me! The Case for Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing; 5. Proscription, Prescription, or Market Process? Comments on Genetic Screening; Part II: Genetically Modified Foods
6. Transgenic Organisms, the European Union, and the World Trade Organization7. Commercialization of the Agrarian Ideal and Arguments against the New ""Green Revolution"": Feeding the World with ""Frankenfoods""?; 8. Corporate Decisions About Labeling Genetically Modified Foods; 9. Moral Imagination, Stakeholder Engagement, and Genetically Modified Organisms; Part III: Corporate Governance and Genetic Commerce; 10. Who Owns My Ideas About Your Body?; 11. Pharmaceutical Mergers and Genetic Technology: A Problematic Combination
12. Stakeholder Care Theory: The Case of Genetic Engineering and Non-human Mammals13. Unresolved Issues and Further Questions: Meir, Potts, and Hendry; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Our rapidly expanding genetic knowledge today points toward a near future in which the elements of humanity closest to our moral core may themselves be produced, manipulated, commodified, and exchanged. Explores the moral and ethical concerns derived from an increasing knowledge of genetics and the variety of its commercial applications A major contribution to the emerging understanding of the role that ethics will play in genetic commerce Written by experts from the academic and corporate sector, with diverse backgrounds in business, social science, and philoso
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ISBN: 1-282-34844-2
9786612348440
0-470-69167-0
1-280-93281-3
9786610932818
0-470-69254-5
1-4051-8212-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910830235903321
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Serie: Leeds School series on business and society.