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Author:   Justine Burley (Simon Fellow in the Department of Government, Simon Fellow in the Department of Government, University of Manchester) ,  Richard Dawkins
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 19.70cm
Weight:   0.267kg
ISBN:  

9780192862013

ISBN 10:   0192862014
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   04 March 1999
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Hilary Putnam: Cloning People Alan Colman: Why Human Cloning Should Not be Attempted 2: Ian Wilmut: Dolly: the age of biological control R. L. Gardner: Dolly: before and after 3: Who Should Have Access to Genetic Information? Justine Burley: Bad Genetic Luck and Health Insurance 4: John Harris: Clones, Genes, and Human Rights Ruth Deech: Cloning and Public Policy 5: Jonathan Glover: Eugenics and Human Rights Alan Ryan: Eugenics and Genetic Manipulation 6: Hillel Steiner: Silver Spoons and Golden Genes Jonathan Wolff: Tin Genes and Compensation 7: Solomon R. Benatar: A Perspective from Africa on Human Rights and Genetic Engineering Roger Crisp: Rights and Beyond Notes; Index

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This volume contains the 1998 Oxford Amnesty Lectures, addressing the human rights risks of the new genetics. The lectures discuss human cloning, privacy and health insurance, eugenic threats, concerns about distributive justice, and human rights issues in Africa. Contributors are Hilary Putnam, Ian Wilmut, Bartha Maria Knoppers, John Harris, Jonathan Glover, Hillel Steiner, and Solomon R. Benatar. The Hastings Center Report

<br> This volume contains the 1998 Oxford Amnesty Lectures, addressing the human rights risks of the new genetics. The lectures discuss human cloning, privacy and health insurance, eugenic threats, concerns about distributive justice, and human rights issues in Africa. Contributors are Hilary Putnam, Ian Wilmut, Bartha Maria Knoppers, John Harris, Jonathan Glover, Hillel Steiner, and Solomon R. Benatar. --The Hastings Center Report<br> As the twentieth century ends, we have hardly taken stock of what has happened during this century of biology. ... Fourteen essays are offered in response to cloning, reproductive technologies for the infertile, and the assorted screening and diagnostic (or possibly therapeutic) uses of the Human Genome Project. The essays were reviewed and critiqued by the contributors after presentation ... [T]here is an overview provided by Richard Dawkins that is not to be missed. It is brilliant, hilarious, and profoundly insightful. ... [T]his would be an excellent

This volume contains the 1998 Oxford Amnesty Lectures, addressing the human rights risks of the new genetics. The lectures discuss human cloning, privacy and health insurance, eugenic threats, concerns about distributive justice, and human rights issues in Africa. Contributors are Hilary Putnam, Ian Wilmut, Bartha Maria Knoppers, John Harris, Jonathan Glover, Hillel Steiner, and Solomon R. Benatar. --The Hastings Center Report<br> As the twentieth century ends, we have hardly taken stock of what has happened during this century of biology. ... Fourteen essays are offered in response to cloning, reproductive technologies for the infertile, and the assorted screening and diagnostic (or possibly therapeutic) uses of the Human Genome Project. The essays were reviewed and critiqued by the contributors after presentation ... [T]here is an overview provided by Richard Dawkins that is not to be missed. It is brilliant, hilarious, and profoundly insightful. ... [T]his would be an excellent book to use in classes that discuss science and society issues. Virtually every side has a voice. ... No doubt future conferences with scientists and humanists will emerge in the new millennium, and this little book will serve as a model to air new ideas and changes in the way we reproduce and concern ourselves with the task (and joy) of parenting. --The Quarterly Review of Biology<br>

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Justine Burley is Simon Fellow in the Department of Government at the University of Manchester, and is a part-time lecturer in Politics at Exeter College, Oxford. She is the editor of Ronald Dworkin and His Critics (1999, Blackwell) and (with John Harris) of A Companion to Genethics (1999, Blackwell). She is currently working on a monograph entitled Genetic Justice, which will be part of the forthcoming OUP series Issues in Biomedical Ethics.

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