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Epigenetics Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects [Paperback]

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  • Category: Books (Philosophy)
  • ISBN-10:  3658144599
  • ISBN-10:  3658144599
  • ISBN-13:  9783658144593
  • ISBN-13:  9783658144593
  • Publisher:  Springer VS
  • Publisher:  Springer VS
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-Apr-2017
  • Pub Date:  01-Apr-2017
  • SKU:  3658144599-11-SPRI
  • SKU:  3658144599-11-SPRI
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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.
Introduction.- Introduction to Epigenetics.- Too Early or Too Late? The Assessment of Emerging Technology.- Epigenetics and Genetic Determinism (in Popular Science).- Identity and Non-Identity. Intergenerational Justice as a Topic of an Ethics of Epigenetics.- Genetics, Epigenetics and Forms of Action. About the Ethical Ambivalence of Epigenetic Knowledge.- Epigenetics: Biological, Medical, Social, and Ethical Challenges.- Learning from and Shaping the Public Discourse about Epigenetics.- State of the Public Discourse on Epigenetics.- Epigenetics  New Aspects of Chemicals Policy.- Epigenetics and Legal Regulations: A challenge for the States Obligation to Protect Environment, Individuals Health and Civil Rights.- Epigenetics and the Protection of Personality Rights.- Adam's Apple and His Legacy: Ethical Perspectives on Epigenetics with an Excursion to the Field of Body Weight Regulation.- Epigenetics and Original Sin. Theological-Ethical Reflections on Heredity and Responsibility.
Reinhard Heil and Harald K?nig 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.

J?rgen Robienski is a German lawyer in Hannover and M?den/Aller (Lower Saxony).l&