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Author:   Veikko Launis ,  Juhani Pietarinen ,  Juha Raikka
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Editions Rodopi B.V.
Volume:   83
Weight:   0.381kg
ISBN:  

9789042006966

ISBN 10:   904200696
Pages:   198
Publication Date:   01 January 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Editorial Foreword. Acknowledgements. Introduction. PART I: METHODOLOGICAL AND THEORETICAL ISSUES. ONE Matti HÄYRY: What the Fox Would Have Said, Had He Been a Hedgehog: On the Methodology and Normative Approach of John Harris's Wonderwoman and Superman. TWO Ingmar PERSSON: Does It Matter When We Begin to Exist? THREE Sirkku Kristiina HELLSTEN: Can We Do Wrong by Bringing Children into Being? FOUR Torbjörn TÄNNSJÖ: Impersonal Morality: A Defense. FIVE Søren HOLM: Principles of Health Care Ethics: Solution or Problem? SIX Juha RÄIKKÄ: On the Morality of Avoiding Information. PART II: PRACTICAL ISSUES. SEVEN John HARRIS: Genome Analysis and Responsibility for Health. EIGHT Ingmar PÖRN: Genetic Information and Care. NINE Anglus CLARKE: The Genetic Dissection of Complex Traits. TEN Rogeer HOEDEMAEKERS and Henk TEN HAVE: Genetic Health and Genetic Disease. ELEVEN Juhani PIETARINEN and Veikko LAUNIS: Patenting Non-Human and Human Life. TWELVE Christoph REHMANN-SUTTER: Hubris and Hybrids in the Myth of Frankenstein. Gregory L. FOWLER and Michael J. GARLAND: Translating the Human Genome Project into Social Policy: A Model for Participatory Democracy. Notes on Contributors. Index.

Reviews

""As a whole, the book is an indispensable piece of secondary literature on John Harris’s Wonderwoman and Superman and additionally contains interesting views on ethics and epistemology of genetics."" - in: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy: A European Journal, Vol. 4, No. 3 (2001) ""Thoughtfully edited … Has features not usually found in the recent plethora of books on ethics and genetics …useful analyses … [John] Harris develops an excellent, detailed argument that we owe equal health care opportunities to everyone, even if a lifestyle has contributed to someone’s illness … especially noteworthy is Angus Clarke’s thorough rebuttal of the theory that, if people learn their risks of susceptibility to future disease, it as effective for such people to initiate risk-reducing behaviors."" - in: Ethics, Vol. 111, No. 4 (July 2001) ""authoritative, easy to read, and pleasantly jargon-free"" - in: Journal of Medical Ethics 26.6 (December 2000)

Author Information

Veikko Launis is Researcher at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Turku, Finland. He is currently working on a Ph.D thesis on the ethical foundation of the new genetics. Juhani Pietarinen is Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Turku, Finland. He has published books and articles on various problems of inductive logic, social philosophy, ethics, and history of philosophy. He is currently interested in environmental philosophy and the classics of the seventeenth century. Juha Räikkä is Docent in Practical Philosophy at the University of Turku, Finland. His research interests include ethics, bioethics, social philosophy, and political theory.

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