Law and Human Genetics: Regulating a Revolution

Author:   Margaret Llewelyn ,  Professor Roger Brownsword ,  Professor William Cornish
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781841130064


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   01 December 1998
Format:   Paperback
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As developments in human genetics proceed apace,the regulation of genetic research and its applications is set to represent one of the major legal challenges of the next century. At every turn - in the fields of medicine and commerce, in insurance and employment, in the family and even in the criminal justice system - advances in human genetics threaten to transform our understanding of ourselves and the basis upon which we relate to one another. This special issue of the Modern Law Review addresses a range of key issues - conceptual, ethical, political and practical - arising from the regulatory challenge confronting the law in the face of the genetic revolution.

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Author:   Margaret Llewelyn ,  Professor Roger Brownsword ,  Professor William Cornish
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Hart Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.290kg
ISBN:  

9781841130064


ISBN 10:   1841130060
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   01 December 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

A commission for the 21st century, Colin Campbell; regulating science, Julia Black; does genetics need the law?, Julian Kinderlerer; human rights, human dignity, and human genetics, Deryck Beyleveld and Roger Brownsword; medical interventions in the human genome, Sheila McLean; insurance and genetics - the current state of play, Onora O'Neill; criminal law and criminal responsibility, Celia Wells; genetics and the family, Ruth Deech; genetics, property, and personality, Alain Pottage.

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Perhaps the greatest value of this collection is that, in addition to outlining the possibilities and dangers attaching to the genetic revolution, the most thought-provoking contributions - especially those by Black, Pottage and Wells - prompt reflection on the need to re-think the core organizing concepts of legal doctrine. Marie Fox Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law June 2002 ...a book to be turned back to in five years time, to check on how the predictions have been fulfilled. Mary Warnock Times Higher Education Supplement September 2002 [a] fascinating collection of essays. Margaret Brazier Child and Family Law Quarterly September 2002 This book will be of interest to readers who want to be brought up to speed on the current controversies in genetics and law who are interested in the process of using law to regulate science and technology. Graeme T. Laurie Journal of the Law Society of Scotland September 2002 ...a good starting point for analysis and debateit efficiently examines current regulatory practicea useful addition to a university library bookshelf. Ray Purdy Journal of Environmental Law September 2002


Author Information

Roger Brownsword is Professor of English Law at King's College London. W.R.Cornish is Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Magdalene College.

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