Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The ethics job
Abstract
1.1 The role of the in-house ethicist and how this book came about
1.2 Research in genomics
1.2.1 Genetics and genomics
1.2.2 A genomics research project: the Procardis consortium
1.2.3 Varieties of genomics research
1.3 Ethical debate in genomics
1.4 Putting philosophy to work in ethics and genomics
1.4.1 Careful attention to steps in argument
1.4.2 Matching up theory with experience
1.4.3 Developing moral thought
1.5 Conclusions
1.6 Study questions
1.7 Coming up next
Chapter 2: Why ethics in genetics? Why ethics in research? The case of genomics research
Abstract
2.1 A brief history of the ethical regulation of research
2.2 An equally brief history of ethics in genetics
2.2.1 Worries about eugenics
2.2.2 Genetics: the spectre of race
2.2.3 Genetics and reproduction
2.2.4 Genetics, life and identity
2.3 Meet ELSI
2.4 Genetic exceptionalism: too much ethics?
2.5 Human subjects and subjects of research
2.6 Lessons from research abuses and open debate
2.7 Researchers facing ethical issues: accounts from the front line
2.7.1 Researchers behaving well: detective work amongst the Mormons
2.7.2 Researchers behaving well: warning the NIH about privacy issues
2.7.3 Researchers behaving well: what Watson didn t want to know
2.8 Epilogue: what can we learn from good behaviour?
2.9 Conclusions
2.10 Study questions
2.11 Coming up next
Chapter 3: What ethics is, and how we are going to proceed
Abstract
3.1 What ethics is not: clearing away confusion
3.1.2 The business of Research Ethics Committees
3.1.2.1 RECs are advocates for the subjects of research
3.1.2.2 Ethics draws on a wider range of issues than do many RECs
3.1.2.3 RECs, rules and ethics
3.1.2.4 RECs as hurdles
3.1.2.5 A note on ethical clearance by RECs
3.1.2.6 Ethics and RECs: to summarize
3.1.3 ELSI and ethics
3.1.4 A note on improving standards
3.1.5 The practical goals of ethics
3.2 What ethics is
3.2.1 Universal ethics and ethical relativism
3.2.2 Thinking right and doing right: moral motivation
3.2.3 What can we hope for in ethics?
3.2.4 Ethical values and other values: knowledge and scientific progress
3.2.5 The case of the missing ethics
3.2.6 Reasoning in ethics: a very brief summary
3.2.7 Empirical work in ethics
3.3 Conclusions
3.4 Study questions
3.5 Coming up next
Chapter 4: Starting analysis in ethics: a practical guide
Abstract
4.1 Introduction: how to use this chapter
4.2 Critical reading in ethics: some strategies
4.3 Reading an article on ethics: some preliminaries
4.3.1 What journal?
4.3.2 The range of work in ethics
4.3.3 Authors and authority
4.3.4 Authors disciplinary backgrounds and affiliations
4.4 Some basic questions to ask as you are reading
4.4.1 Where in the text can you find arguments and evidence for positions?
4.4.2 Key concepts and terms used
4.4.3 What words are used? Same thing, different descriptions, different values
4.4.4 What conclusions, if any, are drawn?
4.5 Looking for assumptions: presenting positions and framing texts
4.5.1 Common framings in genetics and genomics: speed and future promise
4.6 Conclusions
4.7 Study questions
4.8 Coming up next
Chapter 5: Research ethics and challenges from genomics: an overview of the issues
Abstract
5.1 Introduction
5.1.1 Genomics research and the traditional basis of research ethics
5.1.2 Potential issues in genomics research: informational harms
5.1.3 Research networks
5.1.4 A square peg in a round hole? Difficulties imposed by applying standard regulations of research ethics to genomics research
5.2 Ethical issues
5.2.1 Informed consent: complexity of information and rapid change
5.2.2 Informed consent: individuals, families and populations
5.2.3 Withdrawal from genomics research
5.2.4 Confidentiality and privacy in genomics research: new challenges to data protection
5.2.5 Confidentiality and privacy in genomics research: whose confidentiality, whose privacy?
5.2

Klappentext

New developments in science and technology have resulted in shifting ethical challenges in many areas including in genomics research. This book enables those who are involved in genomics research, whether as researcher, participant or policy maker, to understand the ethical issues currently developing in this field and to participate actively in these important debates. A clear account is given of how science and technology are outstripping the capacity of previous ethical regulations to cope with current issues, together with practical illustrations of possible ways forward. Key ethical ideas are presented, drawing on the history of research regulation and on an account of the particular challenges arising in the field of genomics. The book uses a grounded, practical approach to explaining ethical concepts and issues which is geared to enhancing interdisciplinary dialogue. Its broad approach to ethical issues includes relevant considerations from social psychology and there is a particular emphasis on understanding the problems of ethical regulations and practice in the institutional and social context of research. A glossary and numerous text boxes explaining relevant terms and key ideas help to make the work an invaluable resource for both beginners and experts in the field.