Our rapidly expanding genetic knowledge today points toward a nearfuture in which the elements of humanity closest to our moral coremay themselves be produced, manipulated, commodified, andexchanged.* * Explores the moral and ethical concerns derived from anincreasing knowledge of genetics and the variety of its commercialapplications* A major contribution to the emerging understanding of the rolethat ethics will play in genetic commerce* Written by experts from the academic and corporate sector, withdiverse backgrounds in business, social science, andphilosophy* Addresses a range of relevant issues, including geneticscreening, the use of individual's genetic information, therise of genetically modified foods, patenting, pharmaceuticalmergers and monopolization, and the implications of genetic testingon non-human mammals

Preface.Part I: Genetic Screening.1. Is a Genetics Screening Program for Job Applicants Ethical?An Analysis of the Conditions Necessary for Required GeneticScreenings in the Hiring Process (Thomas Harter).2. The Business of Genetic Screening (Duane Windsor).3. Genetic Commerce: The Challenges for Human ResourceManagement (Karen S. Markel and Lizabeth A. Barclay).4. Geneticize Me! The Case for Direct-to-Consumer GeneticTesting (Ronald Munson).5. Proscription, Prescription, or Market Process? Comments onGenetic Screening (Eugene Heath).Part II: Genetically Modified Foods.6. Transgenic Organisms, the European Union, and the World TradeOrganization(Dennis Cooley).7. Commercialization of the Agrarian Ideal and Arguments againstthe New "Green Revolution: Feeding the World with"Frankenfoods"? (Johann A. Klaasen).8. Corporate Decisions about GM Food Labeling (ChrisMacDonald and Melissa Whellams).9. Moral Imagination, Stakeholder Engagement, and GeneticallyModified Organisms (Denis Arnold).Part III: Corporate Governance and Genetic Commerce.10. Who Owns My Ideas About Your Body? (Asher Meir).11. Pharmaceutical Mergers and Genetic Technology: A ProblematicCombination (Michael Potts).12. Stakeholder Care Theory: The Case of Genetic Engineering(Jamie R. Hendry).13. Unresolved Issues and Further Questions: Meir, Potts andHendry (Laura Hartman)