Genetics, Ethics and Education

Genomic information is no longer confined to the clinic. As genetic science advances, schools may soon be asked to fold personalised genomic data into how children are taught, and few teachers or education officials have been prepared for that conversation. This Cambridge volume sets out to equip them, and the rest of us.

Each analysis of the ethical and social questions is paired with a primer on the underlying science, so that people from very different backgrounds can argue from common ground. Unusually for an academic collection, it includes parents and laypeople alongside scholarly experts, which keeps real students in view throughout. A careful, even-handed resource for anyone in education, bioethics or policy who wants to think clearly about where genomics and schooling meet, before the decisions are made for them.