The Ethics of Genetic CommerceISBN: 978-1-4051-6698-0
Hardcover
240 pages
September 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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- Explores the moral and ethical concerns derived from an
increasing knowledge of genetics and the variety of its commercial
applications
- A major contribution to the emerging understanding of the role
that ethics will play in genetic commerce
- Written by experts from the academic and corporate sector, with
diverse backgrounds in business, social science, and
philosophy
- Addresses a range of relevant issues, including genetic screening, the use of individual’s genetic information, the rise of genetically modified foods, patenting, pharmaceutical mergers and monopolization, and the implications of genetic testing on non-human mammals