Genetics and the law / edited by Aubrey Milunsky and George J. Annas.

New York : Plenum Press, [1976], ©1976.

xii, 532 pages ; 26 cm

"Proceedings of a National Symposium on Genetics and the Law held in Boston, Mass., May 18-20, 1975, and co-sponsored by the Boston Chapter of the National Genetics Foundation and the American Society of Law and Medicine."

Copy 1 bears the library stamp of the Eugenics Society.

Legal status of the fetus / Margery W. Shaw and Catherine Damme -- The fetus and the law / Harold P. Green -- The legal aspects of fetal viability / Leonard H. Glantz -- Medico-legal issues in prenatal genetic diagnosis / Aubrey Milunsky -- Karyotype, predictability and culpability / Alan M. Dershowitz -- Geneticophobia and the implications of screening for the XYY genotype in newborn infants / Ernest B. Hook -- Medicolegal aspects of genetic counseling / Kurt Hirschhorn -- Problems of informed consent and confidentiality in genetic counseling / George J. Annas -- Problems in genetic screening which confront the law / Harvey L. Levy -- The liability of physicians and associated personnel for malpractice in genetic screening / Jon R. Waltz -- State supported mass genetic screening programs / Philip Reilly -- Artificial insemination by donor - status and problems / Donald P. Goldstein -- Legal aspects of artificial insemination by donor and paternity testing / Joseph M. Healey, Jr. -- The currrent status of paternity testing / Angelyn A. Konugres -- Genetic counseling for the couple who are first cousins / Lewis B. Holmes -- State channeling of gene flow by regulation of marriage and procreation / Seymour Lederberg -- Voluntary sterilization of the mentally retarded / Charles H. Baron -- Rights and responsibilities of the insurer / John L. Thompson and Wendy M. Greenfield -- The social control of science / Arthur G. Steinberg -- Experimentation and human genetics : problems of "consent" / Alexander M. Capron -- On legislating fetal research / Charles U. Lowe -- In vitro fertilization - a legal perspective / Philip Reilly -- Law and cloning - the state as regulator of gene function / Seymour Lederberg -- The psychopathology of clonal man / Leon Eisenberg -- Biological roots of ethical principles / Salvadore E. Luria -- On the necessity of legislating morality for genetic decisions / Daniel Callahan -- Why shouldn't we have a eugenic policy? / Marc Lappé -- Authorizing death for anomalous newborns / Robert A. Burt -- Discretionary non-treatment of defective newborns / John A. Robertson -- From social movement to clinical medicine - the role of law and the medical profession in regulating applied human genetics / James R. Sorenson.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-515) and index.