The Human Recipe

Pascal Borry is associate professor of bioethics at KU Leuven. Affiliated to the Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law his research mainly deals with ethical, legal and social implications of genetics and genomics.

Preface Introduction 1 The Genome: The Cookbook of Life 2 Reading Genomes 3 A Gene, a Genome, and Then What? 4 Genetic Disorders 5 Angelina Jolie's Choice 6 Give Me Back My DNA! 7 We Are All Carriers 8 New Test Tracks for Fetus DNA 9 Designer Babies 10 As Long as it Stays in the Family 11 Everyone's Genome Investigated 12 Finding out More Than You Would Want to Know 13 HELP! The Government Has My DNA! 14 Genome Hackers 15 A Neanderthal in All of Us? 16 Mudbloods 17 My Olympic DNA 18 The Godfather 19 Personalizing Medicine to Fit Your Genetic Profile 20 Gene Therapy, a Medicine? 21 Consumer Genomics 22 Genes and Patents 23 X and Y About the Authors Recommended Literature