Genetics and ethics in global perspective / by Dorothy C. Wertz and John C. Fletcher.

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2004], ©2004.

x, 474 pages ; 25 cm.

1. The 36-Nation Survey -- 2. Global inequity -- 3. The rise of autonomy -- 4. Counseling: directive and nondirective -- 5. Is modern genetics eugenics? -- 6. Genetics as a family affair -- 7. Privacy, discrimination, and public health -- 8. The geography of ethical reasoning -- 9. Geneticists speak out: culture, ethics, and history -- 10. Organization of genetic services -- 11. Laws affecting genetic services -- 12. China: views of a bioethicist -- 13. China: views of a geneticist -- 14. Germany -- 15. Hungarian TV viewers' responses -- 16. India -- 17. Japan -- 18. Peru -- 19. From genetics to genomics and beyond -- 20. Moral priorities, cases and practices in medical genetics.

Includes bibliographical references and index.