FUTURE PERFECT: Confronting Decisions About Genetics.

Andrews, Lori B.

ISBN 10: 0231121636 / ISBN 13: 9780231121637

Editore: NY: Columbia Univ. Pr. c. 2001., 2001

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• Titolo: FUTURE PERFECT: Confronting Decisions About Genetics.
• Editore: NY: Columbia Univ. Pr. c. 2001.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0231121636
• ISBN 13: 9780231121637
• Rilegatura: Brossura

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Riassunto

The law professor and Congressional advisor tackles the new science of genetics and gauges its possible impact on the ethics of scientific research, our social institutions, gene therapy, medical care, the courts, and more.

Informazioni sull?autore

Lori Andrews has been an adviser on genetic and reproductive technology to Congress, the World Health Organization, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and several foreign nations including the emirate of Dubai and the French National Assembly. She is the author of nine books, including The Clone Age: Adventures in the New World of Reproductive Technology. A professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, she is director of the Institute for Science, Law and Technology and Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago.