Genetics and the Law III

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Biotechnology: Boon or Bane?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Future of Genetic Manipulation

      1. Can We Cure Genetic Disorders?

         • Leon E. Rosenberg

         Pages 5-13

      2. Regulating Genetic Technology

         • Norman Fost

         Pages 15-21

      3. Unsplicing the Gordian Knot

         • Alexander Morgan Capron

         Pages 23-35

   3. The University—Industry—Government Complex

      1. The Academic-Corporate Merger in Medicine

         • Arnold S. Relman

         Pages 39-43

      2. The Corporate Capture of Academic Science and Its Social Costs

         • Sheldon Krimsky

         Pages 45-55

      3. The Double Helix and the Research Triangle

         • Robert B. Nicholas

         Pages 57-71

   4. Human Applications of Genetic Engineering

      1. Commerce and the Future of Gene Transfer

         • Tabitha M. Powledge

         Pages 75-79

      2. The Human Problem of Human Genetic Engineering

         • J. Robert Nelson

         Pages 81-95

      3. Mapping the Human Genome Using Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms

         • David Botstein

         Pages 97-105

      4. Mapping the Human Genome

         • Ruth Macklin

         Pages 107-114

      5. Genetic Alteration of Embryos

         • John A. Robertson

         Pages 115-133

3. New Ways of Making Babies: Brave New World

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135

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   2. Laboratories for Babies

      1. Legal Regulation of Artificial Insemination and the New Reproductive Technologies

         • Joseph M. Healey Jr.

         Pages 139-145

      2. Social Policy Considerations in Noncoital Reproduction

         • George J. Annas, Sherman Elias

         Pages 147-158

      3. Social Justice in New Reproductive Techniques

         • Rebecca Dresser

         Pages 159-179

   3. Having Other People’s Babies

      1. Surrogate Motherhood

         • Bernard M. Dickens

         Pages 183-214

      2. Ethical Issues in Human <i>in Vitro</i> Fertilization and Embryo Transfer

         • LeRoy Walters

         Pages 215-225

      3. Eugenic Sterilization in the United States

         • Philip R. Reilly

         Pages 227-248

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, ... it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. . . . -Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities Dickens, of course, did not have the contemporary dilemmas of modern genetics in mind. Indeed, we need to remind ourselves how short the history of modern genetics really is. Recognition that genetic traits are carried by deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) occurred only about 40 years ago. Knowledge of the three-dimensional structure of DNA is only about 30 years old. The correct number of human chromosomes was not deter­ mined until the mid-1950s, and Down syndrome was recognized only in 1959. It was not until in 1968 that the exact location of a gene was determined on an autosomal chromo­ some, and the study of genes, rather than their protein products, has been possible for barely a decade.

• DNA
• chromosome
• ethics
• genes
• genetics
• prenatal diagnosis

• Center for Human Genetics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA

  Aubrey Milunsky

• Health Law Section, Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Boston, USA

  George J. Annas

Policies and ethics