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The Connected Self : the Ethics and Governance of the Genetic Individual.

Heather Widdows suggests new ethical frameworks for genetic governance, to replace those that offer little protection and permit significant injustice.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Widdows, Heather
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Colección:Cambridge bioethics and law.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The claims of the connected self; The structure of the connected self; 1 The individual self and its critics; Introduction; The individual, separate self; Feminism; Virtue ethics; Conclusion; 2 The individualist assumptions of ethical frameworks; Promotion of a narrow individual model; Development of the individual model; Duty to the individual patient; Methodology; Simple and easy; The choice model; The limits of choice; Fear of paternalism; Conclusion; 3 The genetic self is the connected self; Introduction.
  • Genetic material and informationValuable material and information; Genetic information as shared information; The individual self (again); Personalised medicine; Genetic information is identifying; Confusions regarding anonymisation; Possibilities of identification; Genetic exceptionalism; The extent of sharing; Conclusion; 4 The failures of individual ethics in the genetic era; Introduction; Informed consent; Respecting connected others; Group goods; Informed consent and biobanking; Future-orientated; A research resource, not a research project; Withdrawal; Broad consent; Beyond consent.
  • ConfidentialityThe shared nature of genetic material: implications; The identifying nature of genetic material: implications; The Icelandic example; Conclusion; 5 The communal turn; Introduction; The "communal turn" in bioethics; Emerging models in the communal turn; Expanding consent and to families and groups; Group consent in research; Family consent; Problems with group consent; Collapses into individual consent; Consenting for the group; Protecting vulnerable individuals in groups; Group consent is still consent; Exploitation; Conclusion; 6 Developing alternatives: benefit sharing.
  • IntroductionBenefit sharing; Development of benefit sharing; Types of benefit sharing; Shared patenting: the PXE case; Strengths of benefit sharing; Recognises rights and interests of connected persons; Has the potential to address the "one-off" problem; Flexible and appropriate; Overcoming some worries of inducement to participate; Weaknesses of benefit sharing; Complexity; Global/local tension; Property and commodification; Conclusion; 7 Developing alternatives: trust; Introduction; The trust model; The development of "trust" from "gift"; Versions of trust; The shareholder model.
  • The stakeholder approachUK Biobank; Strengths of trust; Includes different groups and individuals; Not "one-off"; Control without ownership; Weaknesses of trust; Collapse into broad consent; Mass withdrawal; Conclusion; 8 The ethical toolbox part one: recognising goods and harms; Introduction; Groups and vulnerable individuals; Types of groups and the goods which attach to them; Human rights framework; Corporate groups and their goods; Collective groups and their goods; Conclusion; 9 The ethical toolbox part two: applying appropriate practices; Introduction; The ethical toolbox method.