The Ethics of Genetic Commerce

Our rapidly expanding genetic knowledge today points toward a near future in which the elements of humanity closest to our moral core may themselves be produced, manipulated, commodified, and exchanged. Explores the moral and ethical concerns derived from an increasing knowledge of genetics and the variety of its commercial applications A major contribution to the emerging understanding of the role that ethics will play in genetic commerce Written by experts from the academic and corporate sector, with diverse backgrounds in business, social science, and philosophy Addresses a range of relevant issues, including genetic screening, the use of individual s genetic information, the rise of genetically modified foods, patenting, pharmaceutical mergers and monopolization, and the implications of genetic testing on non-human mammals

Our rapidly expanding genetic knowledge today points toward a nearfuture in which the elements of humanity closest to our moral coremay themselves be produced, manipulated, commodified, andexchanged.* * Explores the moral and ethical concerns derived from anincreasing knowledge of genetics and the variety of its commercialapplications* A major contribution to the emerging understanding of the rolethat ethics will play in genetic commerce* Written by experts from the academic and corporate sector, withdiverse backgrounds in business, social science, andphilosophy* Addresses a range of relevant issues, including geneticscreening, the use of individual's genetic information, therise of genetically modified foods, patenting, pharmaceuticalmergers and monopolization, and the implications of genetic testingon non-human mammals

Preface.Part I: Genetic Screening.1. Is a Genetics Screening Program for Job Applicants Ethical?An Analysis of the Conditions Necessary for Required GeneticScreenings in the Hiring Process (Thomas Harter).2. The Business of Genetic Screening (Duane Windsor).3. Genetic Commerce: The Challenges for Human ResourceManagement (Karen S. Markel and Lizabeth A. Barclay).4. Geneticize Me! The Case for Direct-to-Consumer GeneticTesting (Ronald Munson).5. Proscription, Prescription, or Market Process? Comments onGenetic Screening (Eugene Heath).Part II: Genetically Modified Foods.6. Transgenic Organisms, the European Union, and the World TradeOrganization(Dennis Cooley).7. Commercialization of the Agrarian Ideal and Arguments againstthe New "Green Revolution: Feeding the World with"Frankenfoods"? (Johann A. Klaasen).8. Corporate Decisions about GM Food Labeling (ChrisMacDonald and Melissa Whellams).9. Moral Imagination, Stakeholder Engagement, and GeneticallyModified Organisms (Denis Arnold).Part III: Corporate Governance and Genetic Commerce.10. Who Owns My Ideas About Your Body? (Asher Meir).11. Pharmaceutical Mergers and Genetic Technology: A ProblematicCombination (Michael Potts).12. Stakeholder Care Theory: The Case of Genetic Engineering(Jamie R. Hendry).13. Unresolved Issues and Further Questions: Meir, Potts andHendry (Laura Hartman)