Overview
- Focuses on individual autonomy instead of blame
- Proposes constructive ways of dealing with the grey areas arising from the genomics of health care and food production
- Unique in its examination of the implications of genomics for obesity from an ethical perspective
Part of the book series: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics (LEAF, volume 18)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Introduction
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Concepts of Genomics and Obesity; what can Genomics Imply for Society?
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Futures, Genetic Testing and Enhancement
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Cultural Framing of Genomics-Obesity in The Netherlands and Italy
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Food and Health: Toward a Happy Match of Genomics, Obesity and Values
Keywords
- Anti-Obesity-Pills
- Autonomy
- Body Mass Index
- Cellular
- Cosmetic Medicine
- Cultural
- DNA
- Economic
- Enhancement Medicine
- Ethical Perspective
- Financial
- Food Professionals
- Genes
- Genetic Testing
- Genomics
- Gluttony
- Gluttony
- Health Problems
- Healthy Life
- Metabolism
- Negative Medical Consequences
- Nutrigenomics
- Obesity
- Organisms
- Proteins
- Public Health
- Social Environment
- Traditional Ethics
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Reviews
From the reviews:
“The book collects research in the fields of genomics, medical, and social studies of obesity and food science, and proposes ethical frameworks to resolve some of the more pernicious ethical quandaries at their intersection. In addition to medical researchers of genomics, public health researchers, and social scientists interested in obesity and nutrition in Europe, interested medical and public health ethicists also will benefit from the procedural and substantive frameworks offered for ethical and political decision making.” (Daniel Bustillos, Doody's Book Reviews, February, 2013)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Genomics, Obesity and the Struggle over Responsibilities
Editors: Michiel Korthals
Series Title: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0127-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-0126-7Published: 30 November 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3993-2Published: 31 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-0127-4Published: 14 December 2010
Series ISSN: 1570-3010
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1737
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 240
Topics: Ethics, Human Genetics, Public Health