Social consequences of genetic engineering : proceedings of the Sixth Boehringer Ingelheim Symposium, held at Kronberg, Taunus, 12th-14th, June, 1988

Foreword (J.H. Shelley). List of participants. Introduction (D. Weatherall). Session I - Man The human genome (C.T. Caskey). Recent approaches to the detection and prenatal diagnosis of genetic disease (M. Bobrow). Session II - Man (Continued) Preimplantation diagnosis and genetic analysis of fertilised eggs in vitro (A. McLaren). Social impact of human and medical genetics (A. Motulsky). Session III - Animals and Plants Introduction (M.A. Swaminathan). The impact of genetic engineering on plant breeding (J. Schell). Transgenic mammals (E. Winnacker). Session IV - Concern, dissent and legislation Prospects and risks of genetic engineering (W.M. Catenhusen). Human genetic engineering - how far should we go? (J.V.C. Glover).