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8 - Normative theorizing about genetics: a response to Loi

from Part II - Genetic justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2016

Colin Farrelly
Affiliation:
Queen's University, Ontario
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In this chapter I will respond to a number of the criticisms Michele Loi makes to my account of genetic justice. I develop the case in favour of constructing an account of genetic justice by arguing that genes are ‘special’ in three important respects. Genes are special, from the perspective of theorizing about justice, because they (a) have been neglected in our normative theorizing (and thus warrant special attention in order to redress this neglect so that we are better prepared to fairly regulate new genetic technologies); (b) are unique resources and thus require the normative theorist to develop a skill-set that is unique from the skills required for tackling the distribution of external resources like wealth; and (c) genes are special because they play an important role in the development of a wide range of valued phenotypes.
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Print publication year: 2016

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