Genetic fix / by Amitai Etzioni.

  • Etzioni, Amitai.
Date:
1973
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    274 GENETIC FIX Council for International Organiza¬ tions of Medical Sciences (CIOMS), 13,15 Resolution of, 186-87 Council on Theological Education and the Commission on Ecu¬ menical Mission and Relations of the United Presbyterian Church, The, 49 Cloning, 9, 20, 60, 71, 124-25 Death choice of, 43 definition, 43, 139, 214-15 heroic measures, 26 See also Euthanasia Declaration, of General and Special Rights of the Mentally Re¬ tarded, 70 Dirtying the pool, 81-100 effect of abortion, 85-86, 91-92 effect of age, 92-93 effect of artificial insemination, 91-92 genetic pool, 81-86 mutation rate, 84-87, 89, 109-110 Doctors allocation of resources by, 180-81 authoritarianism, 154 cost consciousness of, 177 good faith of, 154 guidelines to clinical research, 216-18 individual-oriented, 98 regulation of, 28, 46, 188-89 responsibilities of, 41 Drugs behavior-modifying, 27 Dexedrine, 27 dopamine, 26 LSD, 30, 232 RitaUn, 27 E Waves, and sexual deviance, 29 Embryo implantation, 64, 71-72, 118 Eugenics. See Breeding; Genetic therapy Euthanasia, 69-70 Family artificial insemination as adultery, 122-23 sanctity of, 78-80,107-108 Fetus care of, in pregnancy, 209-210 experimentation on, 140 rights of 67, 68-70 See also Life, definition of; Abor¬ tion Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 55, 105, 130, 167 Gene pool. See Dirtying the pool Gene shopping, 117, 119 Genetic counseling counselees, 95 counselors, 96 effectiveness of, 94-95, 96 growth of, 131-32 prospective, 90 purpose, 95, 97-98 retrospective, 89-90 Genetic disorders Cooley's disease, 114,132, 195 cystic fibrosis, 87-88, 114, 195 diabetes, 93 dy sautonomia, 195 hemophilia, 83, 92, 96 Huntington's disease, 128 immunodeficiency, 141-49 Klinefelter's syndrome, 23, 83, 102 muscular dystrophy, 52-53, 96 Parkinson's disease, 20 phenylketonuria (PKU), 9, 24, 25, 53, 89, 105, 193 retinoblastoma, 88-89 Sickle-cell anemia, 86-87, 114, 132 detection, 90 Massachusetts' compulsory screening, 195 Tay-Sachs, 114, 132, 195 Turner's syndrome, 23, 83 Genetic fix, lo-ii Genetic therapy coercive, 107-108, 124, 126 goals, 102 individual, 104-106 societal, 106-110 voluntary vj. coercive, 104* Health care of fetus, 209-210 quality of, in U.S., 182-83