Epigenetics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction

   • Reinhard Heil, Stefanie B. Seitz, Jürgen Robienski, Harald König

   Pages 1-10

3. Introduction to Epigenetics

   • Jörn Walter, Anja Hümpel

   Pages 11-29

4. Too Early or Too Late? The Assessment of Emerging Technology

   • Michael Decker

   Pages 31-40

5. Epigenetics and Genetic Determinism (in Popular Science)

   • Sebastian Schuol

   Pages 41-54

6. Identity and Non-identity. Intergenerational Justice as a Topic of an Ethics of Epigenetics

   • Philipp Bode

   Pages 55-67

7. Genetics, Epigenetics and Forms of Action. About the Ethical Ambivalence of Epigenetic Knowledge

   • Joachim Boldt

   Pages 69-81

8. Epigenetics: Biological, Medical, Social, and Ethical Challenges

   • Kirsten Brukamp

   Pages 83-94

9. Learning from and Shaping the Public Discourse About Epigenetics

   • Stefanie B. Seitz

   Pages 95-108

10. State of the Public Discourse on Epigenetics

    • Stefanie B. Seitz, Sebastian Schuol

    Pages 109-123

11. Epigenetics—New Aspects of Chemicals Policy

    • Jutta Jahnel

    Pages 125-139

12. Epigenetics and Legal Regulations: A Challenge for the State’s Obligation to Protect Environment, Individual’s Health and Civil Rights

    • Jürgen Robienski

    Pages 141-156

13. Epigenetics and the Protection of Personality Rights

    • Caroline Fündling

    Pages 157-170

14. Adam’s Apple and His Legacy: Ethical Perspectives on Epigenetics with an Excursion to the Field of Body Weight Regulation

    • Jens Ried

    Pages 171-184

15. Epigenetics and Original Sin. Theological-Ethical Reflections on Heredity and Responsibility

    • Harald Matern

    Pages 185-200

Modern epigenetics unites scientists from life sciences, organic chemistry as well as computer and engineering sciences to find an answer to the question of how environmental influences can have a lasting effect on gene expression, maybe even into the next generations. This volume examines from an interdisciplinary perspective the ethical, legal and social aspects of epigenetics.

• Epigenetics
• Bioethics
• Life Sciences
• Genetics
• Ethics

• Inst.Technikfolgenab. u. Systemanalyse, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Inst.Technikfolgenab. u. Systemanalyse, Karlsruhe, Germany

  Reinhard Heil

• Karlsruher Institut für Technologie , Karlsruhe, Germany

  Stefanie B. Seitz

• Inst.Technikfolgenab. u. Systemanalyse, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie , Karlsruhe, Germany

  Harald König

• Müden, Germany

  Jürgen Robienski

Reinhard Heil and Harald König are researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.


Stefanie B. Seitz was a researcher at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology until January 2016 and is currently working for the DBFZ - Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum gGmbH, Leipzig.


Jürgen Robienski is a German lawyer in Hannover and Müden/Aller (Lower Saxony). He is a research fellow at the Center of Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences (CELLS) of Leibniz University in Hannover.

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