Emily Postan (University of Edinburgh)

Embodied Narratives

Protecting Identity Interests Through Ethical Governance of Bioinformation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

As increasing quantities of health and biological information are generated, the need for us all to consider the human impacts of its ubiquity becomes more urgent than ever. This book explains the ethical imperative to take seriously the potential impacts on our identities of encountering bioinformation about ourselves.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Bioethics and Law
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781108718196
• ISBN-10: 1108718191
• Artikelnr.: 68885891

Autorenporträt

Emily Postan is a chancellor's fellow in Bioethics at the University of Edinburgh Law School and a deputy director of the J Kenyon Mason Institute for Medicine Life Sciences and the Law. Her principal research interests lie in the ethical and regulatory implications of the impacts of health technologies and health data on our identities, group memberships, and relationships with others. Her wider research includes work in neuroethics, reproductive ethics, and regulation of health research.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Attending to identity
2. Mapping the landscape
3. Narrative self-constitution
4. Bioinformation in embodied identity narratives
5. Encounters with bioinformation: three examples
6. Locating identity interests
7. Responsibilities for disclosure
8. Protecting identity in practice.