Law and Genetics

As developments in human genetics proceed apace,the regulation of genetic research and its applications is set to represent one of the major legal challenges of the next century. At every turn - in the fields of medicine and commerce, in insurance and employment, in the family and even in the criminal justice system - advances in human genetics threaten to transform our understanding of ourselves and the basis upon which we relate to one another.This special issue of the Modern Law Review addresses a range of key issues - conceptual, ethical, political and practical - arising from the regulatory challenge confronting the law in the face of the genetic revolution.

ISBN 1841130060   Pages 192 ISBN13 9781841130064 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Hart Publishing   Weight (grammes) 290 Imprint Hart Publishing   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 01 Dec 1998   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress 00361511   Spine width (mm) 10 DEWEY 344.4104196   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

		Human Genetics and the Law: Regulating a Revolution by Roger Brownsword and W. R. Cornish and Margaret Llewelyn		1
		A Commission for the 21st Century by Colin Campbell		6
		Human Genetics: The New Panacea? by Julian Kinderlerer and Diane Longley		11
		Regulation as Facilitation: Negotiating and Genetic Revolution by Julia Black		29
		Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Human Genetics by Deryck Beyleveld and Roger Brownsword		69
		Interventions in the Human Genome by Sheila A. M. McLean		89
		Family Law and Genetics by Ruth Deech		105
		Insurance and Genetics: The Current State of Play by Onora O'Neill		124
		'I Blame and Parents': Fitting New Genes in Old Criminal Laws by Celia Wells		132
		The Inscription of Life in Law: Genes, Patents, and Bio-politics by Alain Pottage		148
		Index		174

Perhaps the greatest value of this collection is that, in addition to outlining the possibilities and dangers attaching to the genetic revolution, the most thought-provoking contributions - especially those by Black, Pottage and Wells - prompt reflection on the need to re-think the core organizing concepts of legal doctrine.Marie FoxJournal of Social Welfare and Family LawJune 2002a book to be turned back to in five years time, to check on how the predictions have been fulfilled.Mary WarnockTimes Higher Education SupplementSeptember 2002[a] fascinating collection of essays.Margaret BrazierChild and Family Law QuarterlySeptember 2002This book will be of interest to readers who want to be brought up to speed on the current controversies in genetics and law who are interested in the process of using law to regulate science and technology.Graeme T. LaurieJournal of the Law Society of ScotlandSeptember 2002a good starting point for analysis and debateit efficiently examines current regulatory practicea useful addition to a university library bookshelf.Ray PurdyJournal of Environmental LawSeptember 2002

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