Mutating Concepts Evolving Disciplines: Genetics Medicine and Society

One: Historical Reflections on Core Concepts. - The Classical Gene: Its Nature and Its Legacy. - Dissolving Dominance. - Flies Genes and Brains: Oskar Vogt Nicolai Timofeeff-Ressovsky and the Origin of the Concepts of Penetrance and Expressivity. - From Reproductive Responsibility to Reproductive Autonomy. - Two: Perspectives from the Philosophy of Science. - Understanding Genetic Causation and Its Implications for Ethical Issues Concerning Medical Genetics. - Reduction Reconceptualized: Cystic Fibrosis as a Paradigm Case for Molecular Medicine. - Scylla and Charybdis: Adaptationism Reductionism and the Fallacy of Equating Race with Disease. - Behavior as Affliction: Common Frameworks of Behavior Genetics and Its Rivals. - Three: Explorations of Ethical Social and Legal Consequences. - The Morality of Prenatal Testing and Selective Abortion: Clarifying the Expressivist Objection. - Meliorism at the Millennium: Positive Molecular Eugenics and the Promise of Progress without Excess. - Personal Identity and the Moral Appraisal of Prenatal Therapy. - Conceptual and Moral Problems of Genetic and Non-Genetic Preventive Interventions. - Unraveling the Codes: The Dialectic between Knowledge of the Moral Person and Knowledge of the Genetic Person in Criminal Law. - Notes on Contributors. Language: English