Name: Mutating Concepts, Evolving Disciplines: Genetics, Medicine, and Society
ISBN: 978-94-010-0269-1

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Lisa S. Parker (Associate Professor of Human Genetics and Director of Graduate Education of the Center for Bioethics and Health Law)⁰,
Rachel A. Ankeny (Lecturer and Director)¹

Lisa S. Parker
1. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
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Rachel A. Ankeny
1. Unit for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney, Australia
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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 75)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-ix

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Introduction
1. Introduction
  
  Lisa S. Parker, Rachel A. Ankeny
  
  Pages 1-7
Historical Reflections on Core Concepts
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 9-9
  
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2. The Classical Gene: Its Nature and its Legacy
  
  Garland E. Allen
  
  Pages 11-41
3. Dissolving Dominance
  
  Douglas Allchin
  
  Pages 43-61
4. Flies, Genes, and Brains: Oskar Vogt, Nikolai Timoféeff-Ressovsky, and the Origin of the Concepts of Penetrance and Expressivity
  
  Manfred D. Laubichler, Sahotra Sarkar
  
  Pages 63-85
5. From Reproductive Responsibility to Reproductive Autonomy
  
  Diane Paul
  
  Pages 87-105
Perspectives from the Philosophy of Science
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 107-107
  
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2. Understanding Genetic Causation and its Implications for Ethical Issues Concerning Medical Genetics
  
  Fred Gifford
  
  Pages 109-125
3. Reduction Reconceptualized: Cystic Fibrosis as a Paradigm Case for Molecular Medicine
  
  Rachel A. Ankeny
  
  Pages 127-141
4. Scylla and Charybdis: Adaptationism, Reductionism, and the Fallacy of Equating Race with Disease
  
  Joseph L. Graves Jr.
  
  Pages 143-164
5. Behavior as Affliction: Common Frameworks of Behavior Genetics and its Rivals
  
  Helen E. Longino
  
  Pages 165-187
Explorations of Ethical, Social, and Legal Consequences
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 189-189
  
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2. The Morality of Prenatal Testing and Selective Abortion: Clarifying the Expressivist Objection
  
  Licia Carlson
  
  Pages 191-213
3. Meliorism at the Millennium: Positive Molecular Eugenics and the Promise of Progress Without Excess
  
  Anita Silvers
  
  Pages 215-234
4. Personal Identity and the Moral Appraisal of Prenatal Therapy
  
  David Wasserman
  
  Pages 235-264
5. Conceptual and Moral Problems of Genetic and Non-Genetic Preventive Interventions
  
  Paul K. J. Han
  
  Pages 265-286
6. Unraveling the Codes: The Dialectic Between Knowledge of the Moral Person and Knowledge of the Genetic Person in Criminal Law
  
  John H. Robinson, Roberta M. Berry
  
  Pages 287-317
Back Matter

Pages 319-339

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About this book

Advances in genetics, such as the Human Genome Project's successful mapping of the human genome and the discovery of ever more sites of disease-related mutations, invite re-examination of basic concepts underlying our fundamental social practices and institutions. Having children, assigning responsibility, identifying causes, using social and scientific resources to improve human well-being, among other concepts, will never be the same. Our concepts of moral and legal responsibility, cause and effect, disease prevention, health, disability, enhancement, personal identity, and reproductive autonomy and responsibility are all subtly changing in response to developments in genetics. Biology, law, medicine, and other disciplines are also evolving in response to mutating concepts in genetics itself-for example, dominance, causation, behavior, gene expression, and gene. The selections in this volume employ philosophical and historical perspectives to shed light on classic social, ethical, and philosophical issues raised with renewed urgency against the backdrop of the mapping of the human genome.

Editors and Affiliations

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

Lisa S. Parker
Unit for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney, Australia

Rachel A. Ankeny

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Mutating Concepts, Evolving Disciplines: Genetics, Medicine, and Society
Editors: Lisa S. Parker, Rachel A. Ankeny
Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0269-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1040-8Published: 31 December 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-3959-8Published: 10 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0269-1Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0376-7418
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 333
Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Human Genetics, Ethics, Philosophy of Science

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Historical Reflections on Core Concepts

Front Matter

Perspectives from the Philosophy of Science

Front Matter

Explorations of Ethical, Social, and Legal Consequences

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Back Matter

Keywords

About this book

Editors and Affiliations

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

Unit for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney, Australia

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