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Genomics, Obesity and the Struggle over Responsibilities

Part of the The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics Book Series (volume 18)

Editors: Korthals, Michiel

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0127-4

ISBN: 978-94-007-0126-7

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Oct 28, 2010

1 - 10 of 16 Chapters

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Challenges of Genomics to Obesity and Traditional Ethics

Korthals, Michiel

Pages: 3 –11

[No one will have failed to notice that the 21st century will be the century of genomics and biotechnology or more broadly of the life sciences. In the last decade of the 20th century citizens of developed countries were confronted with questions like: Which gene is responsible for which...
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Genomics and Obesity from a Pragmatist Point of View

Korthals, Michiel

Pages: 13 –23

[An ethical study like this on the relationship between genomics, society and obesity requires a clear perspective, one that does not work as a barrier to new insights but rather provides a guideline for identifying new aspects. In this chapter we discuss our perspective generally in the first...
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Behaviour, Environment or Body: Three Discourses on Obesity

Swierstra, Tsjalling

Pages: 27 –38

[To this present day, assessing the ethical, legal and social implications of genomics is by and large assessing the future. Most of the implications of genomics have yet to manifest them selves. How will society be affected by applications of genomics to obesity, medicine and food? How will...
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Contesting the Obesity ‘Epidemic’: Elements of a Counter Discourse

van den Belt, Henk

Pages: 39 –57

[In Chapter 3 of this volume, Tsjalling Swierstra distinguishes three discourses, all agreeing that obesity constitutes a pressing problem but each focusing on different causes of and solutions to this problem. Discourse I emphasizes the significance of personal behaviour, which is seen as under...
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Three Main Areas of Concern, Four Trends in Genomics and Existing Deficiencies in Academic Ethics

Korthals, Michiel

Pages: 59 –76

[Now that we have delineated the three discourses and one counter-discourse about obesity, and have paid some attention to genomics, in this chapter (after providing more details about obesity) we address the following questions: ‘Which ethical issues are prominent in this interaction between...
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Obesity Genomics: Struggle Over of Responsibilities

Korthals, Michiel

Pages: 77 –94

[Lots of agencies, actors and stakeholders are connected in a network that consists of at least three constellations: one that emphasizes behaviour, a second that has the social contexts as its core, and a third that centers on the body. Many actors are responsible and blame each other. Genomics...
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Obesity in 2020: Three Scenarios on Techno-socio-ethical Co-evolution

Swierstra, Tsjalling; Keulartz, Jozef

Pages: 97 –112

[In Chapters 3 and 4 we sketched the current, tension-ridden, constellation around obesity. We saw how three discourses, connected to specific practices and artefacts, competed for hegemony in defining the problem, its causes, its solutions and the main-actors. In this way, each discourse...
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Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: How the Promise of a Personalised Approach is Being Squandered

van den Belt, Henk

Pages: 113 –130

[Genomics holds out the promise of a more personalised approach to medicine and nutrition and claims to have overcome the dangers of ‘geneticisation’ by attending to the subtle interplay between genetic and environmental factors. Sometimes, this promise is also considered a reason to enhance...
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Genomics, Obesity and Enhancement

Schermer, Maartje

Pages: 131 –148

[Research in genomics, at least in the popular image, holds the promise of great things to come – not only cures for diseases but perhaps also possibilities to improve and refine ourselves. The debate in bioethics on such possibilities, that have come to be known as ‘enhancement’, has been going...
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Obesity and Genomics in the Netherlands

Korthals, Michiel

Pages: 151 –159

[In this chapter the Dutch debate on the main causes of obesity is described and reviewed as well as the current initiatives adopted by the Governament and private initiatives to tackle the problem. The first part gives an overview of the Dutch situation. The second part of the chapter reports on...

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