Bioethics and the Law

Bioethics and the Law
Author: Janet L. Dolgin
Publisher: Aspen Publishing
Total Pages: 820
Release: 2024
Genre: Bioethics
ISBN: 1543847323

"Casebook on bioethics and the law for law school students"--

Backdoor to Eugenics

Backdoor to Eugenics
Author: Troy Duster
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2004-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1135935645

Considered a classic in the field, Troy Duster's Backdoor to Eugenics was a groundbreaking book that grappled with the social and political implications of the new genetic technologies. Completely updated and revised, this work will be welcomed back into print as we struggle to understand the pros and cons of prenatal detection of birth defects; gene therapies; growth hormones; and substitute genetic answers to problems linked with such groups as Jews, Scandanavians, Native American, Arabs and African Americans. Duster's book has never been more timely.

Backdoor to Eugenics

Backdoor to Eugenics
Author: Troy Duster
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2004-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135935637

Considered a classic in the field, Troy Duster's Backdoor to Eugenics was a groundbreaking book that grappled with the social and political implications of the new genetic technologies. Completely updated and revised, this work will be welcomed back into print as we struggle to understand the pros and cons of prenatal detection of birth defects; gene therapies; growth hormones; and substitute genetic answers to problems linked with such groups as Jews, Scandanavians, Native American, Arabs and African Americans. Duster's book has never been more timely.

Testing Women, Testing the Fetus

Testing Women, Testing the Fetus
Author: Rayna Rapp
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2004-11-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135963916

Rich with the voices and stories of participants, these touching, firsthand accounts examine how women of diverse racial, ethnic, class and religious backgrounds perceive prenatal testing, the most prevalent and routinized of the new reproducing technologies. Based on the author's decade of research and her own personal experiences with amniocentesis, Testing Women, Testing the Fetus explores the "geneticization" of family life in all its complexity and diversity.

Health Care Ethics

Health Care Ethics
Author: John F. Monagle
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 648
Release: 2005
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780763728885

Provides expert help you need to make difficult bio-ethical decisions, covering a broad range of current and future health care issues, as well as institutional and social issues applicable to multiple disciplines and settings.

Selective Reproduction in the 21st Century

Selective Reproduction in the 21st Century
Author: Ayo Wahlberg
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2017-08-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319582208

This book explores how conditions for childbearing are changing in the 21st century under the impact of new biomedical technologies. Selective reproductive technologies (SRTs) - technologies that aim to prevent or promote the birth of particular kinds of children – are increasingly widespread across the globe. Wahlberg and Gammeltoft bring together a collection of essays providing unique ethnographic insights on how SRTs are made available within different cultural, socio-economic and regulatory settings and how people perceive and make use of these new possibilities as they envision and try to form their future lives. Topics covered include sex-selective abortions, termination of pregnancies following detection of fetal anomalies during prenatal screening, the development of preimplantation genetic diagnosis techniques as well as the screening of potential gamete donors by egg agencies and sperm banks. This is invaluable reading for scholars of medical anthropology, medical sociology and science and technology studies, as well as for the fields of gender studies, reproductive health and genetic disease research.

The Assisted Reproduction of Race

The Assisted Reproduction of Race
Author: Camisha A. Russell
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2018-12-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0253035910

The use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART)—in vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, and gestational surrogacy—challenges contemporary notions of what it means to be parents or families. Camisha A. Russell argues that these technologies also bring new insight to ideas and questions surrounding race. In her view, if we think of ART as medical technology, we might be surprised by the importance that people using them put on race, especially given the scientific evidence that race lacks a genetic basis. However if we think of ART as an intervention to make babies and parents, as technologies of kinship, the importance placed on race may not be so surprising after all. Thinking about race in terms of technology brings together the common academic insight that race is a social construction with the equally important insight that race is a political tool which has been and continues to be used in different contexts for a variety of ends, including social cohesion, economic exploitation, and political mastery. As Russell explores ideas about race through their role in ART, she brings together social and political views to shift debates from what race is to what race does, how it is used, and what effects it has had in the world.

Noninvasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT)

Noninvasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT)
Author: Lieve Page-Christiaens
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2018-08-19
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0128141905

Since its introduction in 2012, cell-free (cf) DNA based Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) has been employed to test for fetal chromosome abnormalities, and gene mutations that lead to a variety of genetic conditions, by millions of pregnant women, in more than 90 countries worldwide. With Noninvasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT): Applied Genomics in Prenatal Screening and Diagnosis, Dr Lieve Page-Christiaens and Dr Hanns-Georg Klein have compiled the first authoritative volume on cfDNA NIPT methods and their clinical implementation. - Provides a thorough, practical examination of the history of NIPT, NIPT laboratory techniques and bioinformatics, NIPT screening and diagnostics for a wide range of disorders and birth defects - Presents leading, international experts who discuss the application of NIPT in early screening for common aneuploidies, fetal chromosome anomalies, autosomal trisomies, fetal blood group typing, and maternal constitutional and acquired copy number variants - Includes full color imagery that enhances concept illustration, along with detailed descriptions of the benefits (and limitations) of NIPT - Offers clinicians, researchers, genetic counselors and reproductive specialists of all kinds the required background information, methodologies and essential patient counseling techniques

After the New Social Democracy

After the New Social Democracy
Author: Tony Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780719064777

Lively and authoritative, this study offers a distinctive contribution to political ideas. It should appeal to all of those interested in politics, philosophy, social policy and social studies.

Nature and Sociology

Nature and Sociology
Author: Tim Newton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2007-08-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134211503

This book engages with, and contests, the ‘new sociology of nature’. It moves beyond existing debates by presenting new social theory and working across current fields of interest, addressing the debate on new genetics and genomics, taking human biology seriously, and the issues of interdisciplinarity that are likely to arise in longer term attempts to work across the social and natural world. Nature and Sociology will be of great interest to students of a variety of disciplines including sociology and social science, human geography, social and biological anthropology, and the natural sciences.