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Pharmacogenomics. --- Pharmacogenetics. --- Drug Design. --- Ethics, Medical. --- Legislation, Medical. --- Public Policy. --- Social Environment. --- Pharmacogénomique --- Pharmacogénétique --- Drugs --- Medical ethics. --- Pharmacogénomique --- Pharmacogénétique --- Design.

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Insurance companies routinely use an individual's medical history and family medical history in determining eligibility for life insurance; this is part of the process of medical underwriting. Insurers have also long used genetic information, often derived from family history, in underwriting. But rapid advances in gene identification and genetic testing are changing the way we look at genetic information. Should the results of genetic testing (which might identify a predisposition toward disease not related to medical history) be available to life insurance medical underwriters? Few if any life insurers currently require genetic testing, but there are no laws or regulations prohibiting its use. Genetics and Life Insurance examines the complex economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of genetic information in life insurance underwriting. The contributors are legal scholars, representatives of the life insurance industry (including an actuary and an insurance physician), a geneticist, a genetic counselor, a philosopher, and a consumer advocate. They explore all aspects of an issue that has only recently drawn the attention of policymakers and the public.The book opens with a report on the results of a public opinion poll on genetics and life insurance. Succeeding chapters present the insurer perspective, a discussion of the economics of risk selection in life insurance, background information on the process of underwriting, a scientific analysis of genetic risks and mortality rates, a philosophical discussion of fairness and genetic underwriting, the viewpoints of consumers and genetics counselors, a comparison of different international policy approaches to the issue, and a legal analysis of antitrust implications when insurers collaborate in setting standards for medical underwriting. In the final chapter the editor addresses various policy options, examining the pros and cons of each one and assessing their political feasibility.

Life insurance --- Genetics --- Bioethics --- Insurance, Life. --- Bopetjoca; Ossies/ --- Genetics. --- Biology --- Biomedical ethics --- Life sciences --- Life sciences ethics --- Science --- Embryology --- Mendel's law --- Adaptation (Biology) --- Breeding --- Chromosomes --- Heredity --- Mutation (Biology) --- Variation (Biology) --- Genetic Structures --- Genetic Phenomena --- Life Insurance --- Insurances, Life --- Life Insurances --- Medical examinations --- Moral and ethical aspects --- bio-ethiek (medische, biomedische ethiek, bio-ethische aspecten) --- genetica (genen) --- genetisch onderzoek --- medisch onderzoek --- bioéthique (éthique médicale, biomédicale, aspects bioéthiques) --- génétique (gènes) --- recherche génétique --- examen médical --- Bioethics. --- Medical examinations.

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Scientists conducting human genome research are identifying genetic disorders and traits at an accelerating rate. Genetic factors in human behaviour appear particularly complex and slow to emerge, yet have begun raising their own set of difficult ethical, legal and social issues. In his volume, Ronald Carson and Mark Rothstein bring together well-known experts from the fields of genetics, ethics, neurosciences, psychiatry, sociology and law, to address the cultural and biological underpinnings of behavioural genetics. The authors discuss a range of topics, including the ethical questions arising from gene therapy and screening, molecular research in psychiatry, and the legal ramifications and social consequences of behavioural genetic information. Throughout, they focus on two basic concerns: the quality of the science behind behavioural genetic claims and the need to formulate an appropriate, ethically defensible response when the science turns out to be good. This volume brings together experts from the fields of genetics, ethics, neurosciences, psychiatry, sociology and law, to address the cultural and biological underpinnings of behavioural genetics. The authors discuss a range of topics, including ethical questions arising from gene therapy.

Genetics --- #GBIB:CBMER --- Behavior genetics. --- Behavior genetics --- Behavior genetic analysis --- Behavioral genetics --- Human behavior genetics --- Psychogenetics --- Psychology

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Genetic Testing. --- Delivery of Health Care. --- Ethics. --- Social Environment. --- Environment, Social --- Social Ecology --- Social Context --- Context, Social --- Contexts, Social --- Ecologies, Social --- Ecology, Social --- Environments, Social --- Social Contexts --- Social Ecologies --- Social Environments --- Environment --- Egoism --- Ethical Issues --- Metaethics --- Moral Policy --- Natural Law --- Situational Ethics --- Ethical Issue --- Ethics, Situational --- Issue, Ethical --- Issues, Ethical --- Law, Natural --- Laws, Natural --- Moral Policies --- Natural Laws --- Policies, Moral --- Policy, Moral --- Censorship, Research --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Genetic Screening --- Predictive Genetic Testing --- Predictive Testing, Genetic --- Testing, Genetic Predisposition --- Genetic Predisposition Testing --- Genetic Predictive Testing --- Genetic Screenings --- Genetic Testing, Predictive --- Predisposition Testing, Genetic --- Screening, Genetic --- Screenings, Genetic --- Testing, Genetic --- Testing, Genetic Predictive --- Testing, Predictive Genetic --- Genetic Predisposition to Disease --- Prenatal Diagnosis --- Preimplantation Diagnosis --- Cytogenetic Analysis --- Molecular Diagnostic Techniques --- Databases, Genetic --- Databases, Nucleic Acid --- Genetic Privacy --- diagnosis --- Human Genome Project --- Human Genome Project. --- HGP --- H.G.P. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Social aspects. --- United States.