Connected Self The Ethics and Governance of the Genetic Individual

Name: Connected Self The Ethics and Governance of the Genetic Individual
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ISBN: 9781107008601

ISBN-10: 1107008603

ISBN-13: 9781107008601

Edition: 2013

Authors: Heather Widdows

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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 'ethical toolbox'. First the harms and goods of the particular situation are assessed and…

Book details

List price: $83.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/17/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English




The individual self and its critics



The individualist assumptions of bioethical frameworks



The genetic self is the connected self



The failures of individual ethics in the genetic era



The communal turn



Developing alternatives: benefit sharing



Developing alternatives: trust



The ethical toolbox part one: recognising goods and harms



The ethical toolbox part two: applying appropriate practices



Possible futures