Just Genes: The Ethics of Genetic Technologies

Advances in genetics research, largely, though not entirely, spawned by the Human Genome Project, have led to a broad array of new technologies that promise to revolutionize life as we have known it. Medicine and agriculture are already starting to utilize new technologies to greatly improve disease prevention and treatment and food production. Yet, these "improvements" often raise ethical questions that are not easy to untangle. Some have gone as far to as to argue that certain application...