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• Title:The sorting society : the ethics of genetic screening and therapy / edited by Loane Skene and Janna Thompson.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Skene, Loane.
  Thompson, Janna, 1942-
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WB60 .S714 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Genetic screening--Moral and ethical aspects.
  Gene therapy--Moral and ethical aspects.
  
• Medical Subjects: Genetic Engineering--ethics.
  Cloning, Organism--ethics.
  Genetic Testing--ethics.
  Reproductive Techniques, Assisted--ethics.
  
• Description:ix, 167 p. ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:Cambridge medicine (Series)
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780521689847 (paper)
  0521689848 (paper)
  
• Contents:1. Introduction / Loane Skene and Janna Thompson
  2. Genetic testing, an informed choice / Agnes Bankier and David Cram
  3. Sex selection: sorting sperm as a gateway to the sorting society? / Edgar Dahl
  4. Cloning to avoid genetic disease / Lynn Gillam
  5. Procreative Beneficence: reasons to not have disabled children / Julian Savulescu
  6. Reprogenetic technologies: balancing parental procreative autonomy and social equity and justice / Leslie Cannold
  7. Genetic technology and intergenerational justice / Janna Thompson
  8. Genetic preselection and the moral equality of individuals / David Neil
  9. Genes, identity and the 'expressivist critique' / Rob Sparrow
  10. Overstating the biological: geneticism and essentialism in social cloning and social sex selection / Mianna Lotz
  11. sorting society: a legal perspective / Loane Skene.