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13%OFFHeather Widdows - The Connected Self: The Ethics and Governance of the Genetic Individual - 9781107008601 - V9781107008601
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The Connected Self: The Ethics and Governance of the Genetic Individual

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Description for The Connected Self: The Ethics and Governance of the Genetic Individual hardcover. Heather Widdows suggests new ethical frameworks for genetic governance, to replace those that offer little protection and permit significant injustice. Series: Cambridge Bioethics and Law. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: LNTM; PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454. The Ethics and Governance of the Genetic Individual. Series: Cambridge Bioethics and Law. 216 pages. Heather Widdows suggests new ethical frameworks for genetic governance, to replace those that offer little protection and permit significant injustice. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: LNTM; PSAD. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 17. Weight: 454.
Currently, the ethics infrastructure – from medical and scientific training to the scrutiny of ethics committees – focuses on trying to reform informed consent to do a job which it is simply not capable of doing. Consent, or choice, is not an effective ethical tool in public ethics and is particularly problematic in the governance of genetics. Heather Widdows suggests using alternative and additional ethical tools and argues that if individuals are to flourish it is necessary to recognise and respect communal and public goods as well as individual goods. To do this she suggests a two-step process – the ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
216
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Cambridge Bioethics and Law
Condition
New
Weight
453g
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107008601
SKU
V9781107008601
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-22

About Heather Widdows
Heather Widdows is a Professor in the philosophy department at the University of Birmingham, where she teaches moral philosophy, bioethics, global ethics and health and happiness.

Reviews for The Connected Self: The Ethics and Governance of the Genetic Individual
'Widdows' argument … not only clearly demonstrates the need for new ways of thinking about contemporary issues in genetics and genomics, but also highlights the ways in which ethics itself co-evolves with science.' Ruth Chadwick, Distinguished Research Professor, Cardiff University and Director, Cesagen 'If bioethics is to be less blinkered, it needs a new approach - one that collects the ... Read more

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