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The connected self : the ethics and governance of the genetic individual /

Currently, the ethics infrastructure - from medical and scientific training to the scrutiny of ethics committees - focuses on trying to reform informed consent to do a job which it is simply not capable of doing. Consent, or choice, is not an effective ethical tool in public ethics and is particular...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Widdows, Heather, 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Colección:Cambridge Bioethics and Law
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The individual self and its critics
  • The individualist assumptions of bioethical frameworks
  • The genetic self is the connected self
  • The failures of individual ethics in the genetic era
  • The communal turn
  • Developing alternatives: benefit sharing
  • Developing alternatives: trust
  • The ethical toolbox part one: recognising goods and harms
  • The ethical toolbox part two: applying appropriate practices
  • Possible futures.