Ethical challenges in genomics research : a guide to understanding ethics in context / Paula Boddington.

Ethical challenges in genomics research (Online)

Ethical Challenges in Genomics Research: A Guide to Understanding Ethics in Context

Heidelberg : Springer, c2012.

1. The "ethics job" -- 2. Why research ethics? Why ethics in genetics? The case of genomics research -- 3. What ethics is, what it is not, and how we are going to proceed -- 4. Starting analysis in ethics: a practical guide -- 5. An overview of research ethics and challenges from genomics -- 6. Autonomy and its limits: the view from genomics -- 7. The social and institutional setting of ethics -- 8. Respect for persons in research and in genetics -- 9. Responsibilities of researchers in genetics -- 10. Data sharing in genomics.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.