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245 1 4 _aThe Moral, Social, and Commercial Imperatives of Genetic Testing and Screening
_h[electronic resource] :
_bThe Australian Case /
_cedited by Michela Betta.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands,
_c2006.
300 _aXVI, 270 p.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
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490 1 _aInternational Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine,
_x1567-8008 ;
_v30
505 0 _aPositioning -- From Destiny to Freedom? On Human Nature and Liberal Eugenics in the Age of Genetic Manipulation -- Diagnostic Knowledge in the Genetic Economy and Commerce -- The Australian Case -- Body Talk: Genetic Screening as a Device of Crime Regulation -- Genetic Testing and Human Genetic Databases -- The Imperative of the "New Genetics": Challenges for Ethics, Law, and Social Policy -- Insurance and Genetics: Regulating a Private Market in the Public Interest -- The Social Imperative for Community Genetic Screening: An Australian Perspective -- Genetically Transformed Healthcare: Healthy Children and Parents -- The Australian Law Reform Inquiry into Genetic Commission Testing - A Worker's Perspective -- Genetic Information and the Australian Labour Movement -- Protecting the Vulnerable: Genetic Testing and Screening for Parentage, Immigration, and Aboriginality -- Essentially Whose? Genetic Testing and the Ownership of Genetic Information -- Future Perspective -- Self-Knowledge and Self-Care in the Age of Genetic Manipulation -- Conclusion -- Conclusion.
520 _aThis is a dynamic book that successfully combines global and local thinking with regard to an emerging technology that will contribute to the expansion of proteomics and pharmacogenomics, the science of tailored healthcare and treatments. Genetic testing and screening will change the way people understand health, diagnostic knowledge, illness but also crime, databases and private information, paternity, and self-knowledge. In addition to giving individuals the opportunity to think differently about their well-being, it installs a new taxonomy in terms of illness, because its probabilistic effects will introduce a new narrative in the health discourse of 21st century society. While in the past people could be classified as being healthy or sick, now, through genetic testing and screening, adults can be classified as being healthy, predisposed to an illness, probably at risk, at risk, or carriers of certain risks. The effects of this taxonomy do not remain confined to the individual who is tested but extends to an entire family, as genetic knowledge is family knowledge. But the technology of genetic testing and screening installs a second dramatic register in the prenatal phase when cells and embryos are tested and subsequently altered in order to hit targets of perfection. However, this technology can also be seen as a strategy for the acquisition of new knowledge about oneself, as it instigates a different attitude towards ourselves in a scenario in which the notion of life as a singular noun is seriously questioned by cultural practices that make it necessary to speak of forms of life. The complexity of the Self resulting from this epistemological shift evoke the ancient Greco-roman practices of the care of the self leading to self-knowledge. Genetic testing and screening could therefore be understood as a form of self-quest, and attempt to discover what we are beyond our wishes and desires - beyond what we would like to be.
650 0 _aMedicine.
650 0 _aEthics.
650 0 _aModern philosophy.
650 0 _aCriminal law.
650 1 4 _aBiomedicine.
650 2 4 _aBiomedicine general.
650 2 4 _aEthics.
650 2 4 _aModern Philosophy.
650 2 4 _aCriminal Law.
700 1 _aBetta, Michela.
_eeditor.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9781402046186
830 0 _aInternational Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine,
_x1567-8008 ;
_v30
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4619-3
912 _aZDB-2-SBL
950 _aBiomedical and Life Sciences (Springer-11642)
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