The Connected Self: The Ethics and Governance of the Genetic Individual

by Heather Widdows

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107008603
• ISBN13: 9781107008601
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"