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# From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Interpreting Chance to Choice for the Average Joe?
  

*by T***K on Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2000*

I would like to suggest that this book is a landmark in the intellectual history of the human race on a par with Rousseau's Social Contract and  Darwin's Origin of the Species. This book is a great achievement for the  authors (a "dream team" of practicing bioethicists).  I had just  enough training in ethics (B.A. Michigan 1982) to understand the book and I  enjoyed it immensely.  I wonder, however, whether this book would  probably be inaccessible to many readers who should read it.  I expect we  will need a really thorough set of "Cliff Notes" (or  "Genomic Ethics for Dummies"), since this book seems designed to  be read by the modern ethical philosopher, moreso than the educated members  of the public.  Perhaps the reviewers on Amazon.com could provide such a  service for the world.  I was fortunate to have an advance peek at the book  through a conference held in San Diego in January, so I have had some time  to reflect on the book's implications. This book made me intrigued about  the prospect for some people using the genome to have better babies (see  the book on Designer Babies by Dr. Gosden for the "how to" on in  vitro fertilization). Under secular ethical principles, as outlined in this  book, do parents have an ethical obligation to use genomic information to  have a "healthier" child?  If so, what are the ethical boundaries  of that obligation?  NPR had a report some time ago about some  achondroplastic dwarf parents who wanted to choose a child with their  genetic "defect" --- is that sometime ethically prohibited by the  principles in this book?  The parental choice issues raised by this book  strike me as the issue ripe for controversy.  These are the fundamental  questions that this book raises for every member of the human race who  plans to procreate (or already has procreated).My kids will be entering  the first generation where prospects for improving admission to the  aristocracy (e.g. to an Ivy League school) arguably could begin at the  moment of conception (if in vitro, aided by genomic data to screen  embryoes). I find that interesting and a little bit alarming.Chance to  Choice also addresses myriad ethical issues (those relating to  "distributive justice" in the mode of John Rawls' Theory of  Justice) that will spin off from the genome project.  They suggest that  genetic discrimination (the "genetic ghetto") may arise if we are  not careful about how this information is used. For anyone planning to  make a living from the genome, some understanding of this book is essential  to their success in business (I am an attorney involved in biotech  issues  and I think that this book point to (but does not map out) the boundaries  of what companies can do with the genome).My EMail is  tredick@chapinlaw.com if anyone interested in discussing this book's  implications further. I think that people will be talking about this one  until the talking, bipedal genetically enhanced, vegetarian activist cows  come home sometime in the next hundred years (just kidding...  ;).I plan  to buy some extra copies on Amazon.com to give away or mark up with  highlighters (those parts I need to read many times to really understand).  It really is a great and timely book.Tom

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    An excellent account of how eugenics has gone from being seen as an evil to being acceptable
  

*by F***E on Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2009*

This book is dense and intellectually rigorous. It allows the reader to understand the history of eugenics - how the concept has been shaped and used by many different people and many different agendas over the last two hundred years. My only concern is that it lacks an understanding of the implications of genetic screening and enhancement in the real lived world - that while it may argue there a few ethical and "justice" hurdles in the way of using the knowledge gained from the study of genetics - it does not account for how such changes would impact the lives of real people. It is worth reading however because it demonstrates how easily we have come to accept the ideas put forward by geneticists as to the benefits of genetic screening and illustrates the assumptions many geneticists make about the lives of people disability. That is that many (not all) but many are better off not lived. And that the emphasis should be on prevention rather than cure.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Ethics, Eugenics and the human genome
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2000*

This book addresses all of the neccessary details of the social ramafications involved with our knowledge of the human genome.  In this book, the heart wrenching accounts of America's eugenic movement are  powerful enough to move anyone to become actively involved in the issues at  hand.  A real eye opener, one which makes it painstakingly clear that we  are not prepared to deal with the information that we have aquired about  ourselves and eachother.

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