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Advance praise: 'With a battery of philosophical arguments, Widdows soon convinces the reader that our current ethical framework, the choice model, has to go ... Informative, scholarly and yet extremely accessible.' Lisa Bortolotti, Birmingham University 'In setting out how genetics makes ethical individualism redundant - itself an important and timely argument - Heather Widdows at the same time puts neo-liberal 'morality' firmly in its place.' Bob Brecher, University of Brighton 'If bioethics is to be less blinkered, it needs a new approach - one that collects the required 'tools' and then applies them in a way that is responsive to the full range of material harms and goods. The Connected Self is a compelling read.' Roger Brownsword, Kings College London and Chair, UK Biobank Ethics and Governance Council '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 'Provides a strong and urgently needed call to 'clean up our act' as regards the ethical governance of genetics ... Reading this book reminded me why I became an ethicist.' Sigrid Sterckx, Ghent University

Advance praise: '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 required 'tools' and then applies them in a way that is responsive to the full range of material harms and goods. The Connected Self is a compelling read.' Roger Brownsword, Kings College London and Chair, UK Biobank Ethics and Governance Council 'With a battery of philosophical arguments, Widdows soon convinces the reader that our current ethical framework, the choice model, has to go ... Informative, scholarly and yet extremely accessible.' Lisa Bortolotti, Birmingham University 'In setting out how genetics makes ethical individualism redundant - itself an important and timely argument - Heather Widdows at the same time puts neo-liberal 'morality' firmly in its place.' Bob Brecher, University of Brighton 'Provides a strong and urgently needed call to 'clean up our act' as regards the ethical governance of genetics ... Reading this book reminded me why I became an ethicist.' Sigrid Sterckx, Ghent University

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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.

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