About the Book
The genie is out of the bottle. A whole new world of genetics research is underway with its exciting potential for a better understanding of heredity and genetically inherited disease, with opportunities for prevention, management and cure. But the current explosion of human genetic information has the potential for abuse also, for damage to rights, privacy and fair treatment for individuals and vulnerable groups. This book brings us up to date with important contributions from the authoritative Encyclopaedia of the Human Genome on the urgent social, legal and ethical aspects of the Human Genome enterprise, accessibly written and introduced for the undergraduate, postgraduate and general reader.
About the Author: GWEN ADSHEAD Traumatic Stress Clinic, London, UK JOSEPH S. ALPER University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA EINAR ÁRNASON University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland PAUL ATKINSON Cardiff University, UK HENRI ATLAN Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France ARA BARSAM University of Oxford, UK PATRICK BATESON University of Cambridge, UK JON BECKWITH University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA PHILIP L. BEREANO Department of Technical Communication, University of Washington, USA ADITYA BHARADWAJ Cardiff University, UK BARBARA B. BIESECKER National Human Genome Research Institute, Maryland, USA JENNIFER BOSTOCK Kings College, London, UK HANNAH BRADBY University of Warwick, Coventry, UK TIMOTHY CAULFIELD University of Alberta, Canada RUTH CHADWICK Lancaster University, UK IRUN COHEN The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel DENA DAVIS Cleveland State University, Ohio, USA DONNA DICKENSON University of Birmingham, UK GABRIEL DOVER University of Leicester, UK TROY DUSTER New York University, USA CAROL EMSLIE MRC Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, UK VERONICA ENGLISH British Medical Association, London, UK COLIN FARELLY University of Manchester, UK KATIE FEATHERSTONE Cardiff University, UK MARY FORD Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University, UK MICHAEL A. FORTUN Department of Science & Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA SUN-WEI GUO Medical College of Wisconsin, USA JOHN HARRIS University of Manchester, UK SHEILA HOLLINS St George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK KATE HUNT MRC Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, UK REGINE KOLLECK University of Hamburg, Germany ANDREW LINZEY University of Oxford, UK JOHNATHON MARKS University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA PAUL A. MARTIN University of Nottingham, UK JANE MCCARTHY St George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK ROBYN MCDERMOTT Queensland Health, Australia TONY MCGLEENAN School of Law, University of Ulster, UK JOHN J. MITCHELL McGill University, Canada BERNADETTE MODELL University College London, UK DEREK MORGAN Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University, UK DOROTHY NELKIN Department of Sociology & School of Law, New York University, USA ALAN PETERSON University of Plymouth, UK LINDSAY PRIOR Cardiff University, UK ANNIE PROCTER Institute of Medical Genetics, Cardiff, UK PHILIP R. REILLY Interleukin Genetics Inc., USA MARTIN RICHARDS University of Cambridge, UK JEREMY RIFKIN The Foundation on Economic Trends, Washington, USA STEVEN P. R. ROSE The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK MICHAEL RUSE Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA CHARLES R. SCRIVER McGill University, Canada TOM SHAKESPEARE University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK VALERIE SINASON St George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK ANN SOMMERVILLE British Medical Association, London, UK PAUL WEINDLING Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK FRANK WELLS Pha
