Right to know and the right not to know : genetic privacy and responsibility / edited by Ruth Chadwick, Mairi Levitt and Darren Shickle.

First published: Aldershot ; Brookfield, VT : Avebury, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Ruth Chadwick, Mairi Levitt and Darren Shickle -- Part I. Philosophical and Legal Issues -- The right to know and the right not to know : the emerging debate / Ruth Chadwick, Mairi Levitt and Darren Shickle -- Autonomy and a right not to know / Jørgen Husted -- Privacy and the right not to know : a plea for conceptual clarity / Graeme Laurie -- art II. Issues in Genetics -- Biobanks and feedback / Kadri Simm -- Suspects, victims and others : producing and sharing forensic genetic knowledge / Robin Williams and Matthias Weinroth -- Empowered by choice? / Mairi Levitt -- DIY genetics : the right to know your own genome / Barbara Prainsack -- Genomics, inconvenient truths and accountability / Jeantine Lunshof and Ruth Chadwick -- Part III. Emerging Issues -- The right to know and the right not to know in the era of neoliberal biopolitics and bioeconomy / Henk Ten Have -- The parental love argument against 'designing' babies : the harm in knowing that one has been selected or enhanced / Anca Gheaus -- The press and the public interest / Joachim Allgaier -- The inescapability of knowing and inability to not know in the digital society / Richard Watermeyer -- The food we eat : the right to be informed and the duty to inform / Michiel Korthals.