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"Ethical and practical issues around genetic research are of major international concern, both in academia and in the public domain. Questions around what interventions are possible and appropriate with the increasing amount of genetic information available, challenge our understandings of ourselves, our health and wellbeing, and the role of medical ethics, public health, surveillance and risk. This book has been developed out of the Taylor & Francis journal ""Critical Public Health"", of which Robin Bunton is the editor. The contributors look at how the 'new' genetics and healthcare and health policy arising from it can or should be governed and regulated. Much of the debate about genetics has thus far focused on individualistic ethical issues, while this book takes a broader, international public health approach."

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Author:   Robin Bunton (University of Teesside, UK) ,  Alan Petersen (Monash University, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9780415354066

ISBN 10:   0415354064
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   24 February 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Section 1: Introduction: Genetic, Governance, and Ethics Section 2: Ethics, Risk and Governance 1. Ethics of Clinical Genetics: The Spirit of the Profession and Trials of Suitability from 1970 to 2000 2. Risk Management and Ethics in High-Tech Antenatal Care: The Finnish Experience 3. The First Genetic Screening in Finland: Its Execution, Evaluation and some Possible Implications for Liberal Government 4. Choice as Responsibility: Genetic Testing as Citizenship through Familial Obligation and the Management of Risk Section 3: Risk, Population and Identity 5. From Eugenics to the Government of Genetic Risks 6. The Sociology of the New Genetics: Conceptualising the Links Between Reproduction, Gender and Bodies 7. Who's Right to Choose? The New Genetics, Prenatal Testing and People 8. 'New' Genetics Meets the Old Underclass: Findings from a Study of Genetic Outreach Services in Rural Kentucky Section 4: Knowledge, Goverance, and the Future 9. Public Health And The `New Genetics': Balancing Individual And Collective Outcomes 10. More Than Code: From Genetic Reductionism To Complex Biological Systems 11. Emerging Forms of Governance in Genomics and Post-Genomics: Structures, Trends, Perspectives

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Robin Bunton is Professor of Sociology at the University of Teeside. He has previously worked as a researcher and practitioner in the public health field and published widely in the sociology of health. Alan Petersen is Professor of Sociology at the Univeristy of Plymouth. He has researched and published widely in the sociology of health and illness, and more specifically in the sociology of the new genetics.

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