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The Connected Self - The Ethics and Governance of the Genetic Individual (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R3,104
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The Connected Self - The Ethics and Governance of the Genetic Individual (Hardcover, New): Heather Widdows

The Connected Self - The Ethics and Governance of the Genetic Individual (Hardcover, New)

Heather Widdows

Series: Cambridge Bioethics and Law

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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 then appropriate practices are put in place to protect goods and prevent harms. This debate speaks to core concerns of contemporary public ethics and suggests a means to identify and prioritise public and common goods.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Cambridge Bioethics and Law
Release date: 2013
First published: March 2013
Authors: Heather Widdows
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-00860-1
Categories: Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Social law > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Bio-ethics
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LSN: 1-107-00860-3
Barcode: 9781107008601

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