Ethical Problems and Genetics Practice provides a rich, case-based account of the ethical issues arising in the genetics clinic and laboratory. By analysing a wide range of evocative and often arresting cases from practice, Michael Parker provides a compelling insight into the complex moral world of the contemporary genetics professional and the challenges they face in the care of patients and their families. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the ethical issues arising in everyday genetics practice. Ethical Problems and Genetics Practice is also a sustained engagement with the relationships between bioethics and social science. In proposing and exemplifying a new approach to bioethics, it makes a significant contribution to debates on methods and interdisciplinarity and will therefore also appeal to all those concerned with theoretical and methodological approaches to bioethics and social science.

マイケル・パーカーが描くのは、遺伝学という最先端科学の最前線で繰り広げられる、血の通った「道徳の迷宮」です。本書は単なる倫理指針に留まらず、切実な臨床事例を通じて、生と死、家族の絆、個人の自由が衝突する瞬間の凄まじい緊張感を見事に言語化しています。 バイオエシックスに社会科学の視座を導入した革新的な手法は、現場の専門家が抱く苦悩に徹底的に寄り添い、読者に知的な興奮を呼び起こします。科学の進歩が突きつける究極の問いに、真摯かつ情熱的に向き合ったこの一冊は、私たちの生命観を根底から揺さぶる力を持っています。