Mutating Concepts, Evolving Disciplines: Genetics, Medicine, and Society
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-010-3959-8 (ISBN)
One: Historical Reflections on Core Concepts.- The Classical Gene: Its Nature and Its Legacy.- Dissolving Dominance.- Flies, Genes, and Brains: Oskar Vogt, Nicolai Timofeeff-Ressovsky, and the Origin of the Concepts of Penetrance and Expressivity.- From Reproductive Responsibility to Reproductive Autonomy.- Two: Perspectives from the Philosophy of Science.- Understanding Genetic Causation and Its Implications for Ethical Issues Concerning Medical Genetics.- Reduction Reconceptualized: Cystic Fibrosis as a Paradigm Case for Molecular Medicine.- Scylla and Charybdis: Adaptationism, Reductionism, and the Fallacy of Equating Race with Disease.- Behavior as Affliction: Common Frameworks of Behavior Genetics and Its Rivals.- Three: Explorations of Ethical, Social, and Legal Consequences.- The Morality of Prenatal Testing and Selective Abortion: Clarifying the Expressivist Objection.- Meliorism at the Millennium: Positive Molecular Eugenics and the Promise of Progress without Excess.- Personal Identity and the Moral Appraisal of Prenatal Therapy.- Conceptual and Moral Problems of Genetic and Non-Genetic Preventive Interventions.- Unraveling the Codes: The Dialectic between Knowledge of the Moral Person and Knowledge of the Genetic Person in Criminal Law.- Notes on Contributors.
Reihe/Serie | Philosophy and Medicine ; 75 |
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Zusatzinfo | IX, 333 p. |
Verlagsort | Dordrecht |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik | |
Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Humangenetik | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie | |
ISBN-10 | 94-010-3959-3 / 9401039593 |
ISBN-13 | 978-94-010-3959-8 / 9789401039598 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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