The Ethics of Genetic Commerce

Our rapidly expanding genetic knowledge today points toward a near future in which the elements of the human body could be produced, manipulated, commodified, and exchanged. Contributors to this third volume in the Leeds School Series-academics and practitioners from the corporate sector, representing a diversity of backgrounds in business, social science, and philosophy internationally-discuss the challenges of genetic commerce, both as a topic of understanding and as a process requiring direction, certain to remain at the core of ethical debate for decades to come. All articles are new for this volume.

Robert W. Kolb holds the Frank W. Considine Chair in Applied Ethics at Loyola University Chicago. He was formerly Assistant Dean for Business and Society (2003–2006) at the University of Colorado, and John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Finance at the University of Miami. He is author and co-author of numerous texts in finance, including Futures, Options, and Swaps, 5e (with James A. Overdahl, Blackwell, 2007) and Understanding Futures Markets, 6e (with James A. Overdahl, Blackwell, 2006).