Genetic engineering - Michael Boylan

For courses in Medical and Applied Ethics.

This text introduces students to important ethical issues that arise in the realm of genetic engineering. It provides the basic science and ethical analysis necessary to assess central issues confronting our society in this emerging area of research. At the end, students will be able to formulate their own positions on these crucial issues.

Michael Boylan (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is professor of philosophy at Marymount University. He is the author of Basic Ethics, an essay on normative and applied ethics. He has also written or edited ten books in philosophy and has published over sixty articles.

Kevin Brown (M.D., Cambridge University), MRCP, FRCPath, is a Visiting Scientist at the National Institutes of Health. He has authored or co-authored over seventy articles and has lectured widely on his work concerning the role of viruses as agents of disease and tools for gene therapy.