Overview

"For decades, the field of bioethics has shaped the way we think about ethical problems in science, technology, and medicine. But its traditional emphasis on individual interests such as doctor-patient relationships, informed consent, and personal autonomy is minimally helpful in confronting the social and political challenges posed by new human biotechnologies such as assisted reproduction, human genetic modification, and DNA forensics. Beyond Bioethics addresses these provocative issues from an emerging standpoint that is attentive to race, gender, class, disability, privacy, and notions of democracy—a ""new biopolitics."" This authoritative volume provides an overview for those grappling with the profound dilemmas posed by these developments. It brings together the work of cutting-edge thinkers from diverse fields of study and public engagement, all of them committed to this new perspective grounded in social justice and public interest values."

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Author:   Osagie K. Obasogie ,  Marcy Darnovsky ,  Troy Duster ,  Patricia J. Williams
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.771kg
ISBN:  

9780520277847

ISBN 10:   0520277848
Pages:   552
Publication Date:   13 March 2018
Audience:   Adult education ,  College/higher education ,  Further / Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Foreword by Troy Duster Acknowledgments Note to Readers Introduction - Osagie K. Obasogie and Marcy Darnovsky Part I. The Biopolitical Critique of Bioethics: Historical Context 1. The Biological Inferiority of the Undeserving Poor - Michael B. Katz 2. Making Better Babies: Public Health and Race Betterment in Indiana, 1920–1935 - Alexandra Minna Stern 3. Eugenics and the Nazis: The California Connection - Edwin Black 4. Why the Nazis Studied American Race Law for Inspiration - James Q. Whitman 5. Constructing Normalcy: The Bell Curve, the Novel, and the Invention of the Disabled Body in the Nineteenth Century - Lennard J. Davis 6. The Eugenics Legacy of the Nobelist Who Fathered IVF - Osagie K. Obasogie Part II. Bioethics and its Discontents 7. A Sociological Account of the Growth of Principlism - John H. Evans  8. Why a Feminist Approach to Bioethics? - Margaret Olivia Little 9. Disability Rights Approach toward Bioethics? - Gregor Wolbring 10. Differences from Somewhere: The Normativity of Whiteness in Bioethics in the United States - Catherine Myser 11. Bioethical Silence and Black Lives - Derek Ayeh 12. The Ethicists - Carl Elliott Part II. Emerging Biotechnologies, Extreme Ideologies: The Recent Past and Near Future 13. The Genome as Commons - Tom Athanasiou and Marcy Darnovsky 14. Yuppie Eugenics - Ruth Hubbard and Stuart Newman 15. Brave New Genome - Eric S. Lander 16. Can We Cure Genetic Diseases without Slipping into Eugenics? - Nathaniel Comfort  17. Cyborg Soothsayers of the High-Tech Hogwash Emporia: In Amsterdam with the Singularity - Corey Pein Part IV. Markets, Property, and The Body 18. Flacking for Big Pharma - Harriet A. Washington 19. Your Body, Their Property - Osagie K. Obasogie 20. Where Babies Come From: Supply and Demand in an Infant Marketplace - Debora Spar 21. Dear Facebook, Please Don’t Tell Women to Lean In to Egg Freezing - Jessica Cussins 22. The Miracle Woman - Rebecca Skloot Part V. Patients As Consumers in The Gene Age 23. What Is Your DNA Worth? - David Dobbs 24. Should Patients Understand That They Are Research Subjects? - Jenny Reardon 25. Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests Should Come with a Health Warning - Jessica Cussins 26. Genetic Testing for All Women? Not a Solution to the Breast Cancer Epidemic - Karuna Jaggar 27. Welcome, Freshmen: DNA Swabs, Please - Troy Duster 28. Me Medicine - Donna Dickenson 29. Public Health in the Precision-Medicine Era - Ronald Bayer and Sandro Galea Part VI. Seeking Humanity in Human Subjects Research 30. Medical Exploitation: Inmates Must Not Become Guinea Pigs Again - Allen M. Hornblum and Osagie K. Obasogie 31. The Body Hunters - Marcia Angell 32. Guinea-Pigging - Carl Elliott 33. Human Enhancement and Experimental Research in the Military - Efthimios Parasidis 34. Non-Consenting Adults - Harriet A. Washington Part VII. Baby-Making in The Biotech Age 35. Generation I.V.F.: Making a Baby in the Lab—10 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me - Miriam Zoll 36. Queering the Fertility Clinic - Laura  Mamo 37. Reproductive Tourism: Equality Concerns in the Global Market for Fertility Services - Lisa Chiyemi Ikemoto 38. Make Me a Baby as Fast as You Can - Douglas Pet  39. Let’s Get Rid of the Secrecy in Donor-Conceived Families - Naomi Cahn and Wendy Kramer Part VIII. Selecting Traits, Selecting Children 40. Disability Equality and Prenatal Testing: Contradictory or Compatible? - Adrienne Asch 41. The Bleak New World of Prenatal Genetics - Marcy Darnovsky and Alexandra Minna Stern 42. Have New Prenatal Tests Been Dangerously Oversold? - Beth Daley 43. Sex Selection and the Abortion Trap - Mara Hvistendahl 44. A Baby, Please: Blond, Freckles—Hold the Colic - Gautam Naik Part IX. Reinventing Race in The Gene Age 45. Straw Men and Their Followers: The Return of Biological Race - Evelynn M. Hammonds 46. The Problem with Race-Based Medicine - Dorothy Roberts 47. Race in a Bottle - Jonathan Kahn  48. The Science and Business of Genetic Ancestry Testing - Deborah A. Bolnick et al. 49. All That Glitters Isn’t Gold - Osagie K. Obasogie and Troy Duster 50. High-Tech, High-Risk Forensics - Osagie K. Obasogie Part X. Biopolitics and The Future 51. Die, Selfish Gene, Diem - David Dobbs 52. Toward Race Impact Assessments - Osagie K. Obasogie 53. Human Genetic Engineering Demands More Than a Moratorium - Sheila Jasanoff, J. Benjamin Hurlbut, and Krishanu Saha 54. “Moral Meanings of an Altogether Different Kind”: Progressive Politics in the Biotech Age - Marcy Darnovsky Afterword by Patricia J. Williams List of Contributors Index

Reviews

With the rapid development of new biotechnologies like CRISPR, Beyond Bioethics makes a timely call for a novel take on bioethics capable of addressing the significant sociopolitical implications of these technologies. . . . Bridging together thinkers across the humanities and sciences divide, Beyond Bioethics models a progressive, interdisciplinary approach to bioethics that extends beyond a focus on the individual toward a 'new biopolitics' of the global, the collective. * Somatosphere * A useful contribution. Gives both a name and a direction to a more socially conscious ethical and political framework to the controversial issues posed by developments in genomics. * Metapsychology Online Reviews *

As an argument for a particular focus in bioethics, with each chapter serving as a case providing an example of this focus, Beyond Bioethics is convincing. . . . covers a lot of theoretical ground, and is clear and enjoyable to read without sacrificing intelligence. It will certainly spark both scholarly discussion and student interest. * Quarterly Review of Biology * With the rapid development of new biotechnologies like CRISPR, Beyond Bioethics makes a timely call for a novel take on bioethics capable of addressing the significant sociopolitical implications of these technologies. . . . Bridging together thinkers across the humanities and sciences divide, Beyond Bioethics models a progressive, interdisciplinary approach to bioethics that extends beyond a focus on the individual toward a 'new biopolitics' of the global, the collective. * Somatosphere * A useful contribution. Gives both a name and a direction to a more socially conscious ethical and political framework to the controversial issues posed by developments in genomics. * Metapsychology Online Reviews *

Author Information

Osagie K. Obasogie is Haas Distinguished Chair and Professor of Bioethics in the Joint Medical Program and School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.  Marcy Darnovsky is Executive Director of the Center for Genetics and Society, a public interest organization focused on human biotechnologies.

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