Assignment title: Information


Is there a moral problem with the commercialisation of human genetic material? Consider at least one argument against genetic commercialisation, evaluating it and indicating clearly whether you agree/disagree, and why. I have added all the related reading material. Both sources MUST be used in the essay (I have included them as attachments). It must also include atleast any one of these sources: Nils Holtug, �Creating and patenting new life forms.� In Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer (eds), A Companion to Bioethics. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001). [R] Adam D. Moore, �Owning genetic information and gene enhancement techniques: Why privacy and property rights may undermine social control of the human genome.� Bioethics, Volume 14, no. 2, 2000: 97-119. Pilar Ossorio, �Legal and ethical issues in biotechnology patenting.� In Justine Burley and John Harris (eds), A Companion to Genethics. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002). [R] Alain Pompidou, �Research on the human genome and patentability: the ethical consequences.� Journal of Medical Ethics vol. 21 (1995): 69-71. Mark Sagoff, �Are genes inventions? An ethical analysis of gene patents.� In Justine Burley and John Harris (eds), A Companion to Genethics. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002). [R] Wilkinson, Steven, Bodies for sale. (London: Routledge, 2003). From the phenomenology/embodiment literature: J.F. Keenan, �Genetic research and the elusive body�, in Embodiment, Morality and Medicine (Theology and Medicine Vol. 6) Cahill & Farley (eds), Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995) M. Sheets-Johnstone, �The materialisation of the body: A history of western medicine, a history in progress�. In Giving the Body its Due, (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, (1992). R.M. Zaner, �Body: Embodiment: The Phenomenological Tradition.� In Encyclopedia of Bioethics, T.W. Reich (ed) Vol. 1. New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan, (1995). Also: Straus (1966), The Primary World of Senses. Merleau-Ponty (1962) [1992] Phenomenology of Perception. Please use Havard style refrencing and make sure to answer the question "Is there a moral problem with the commercialisation of human genetic material?" and clearly indicate your position.