First published: Aldershot ; Brookfield, VT : Avebury, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Ruth Chadwick, Mairi Levitt and Darren Shickle -- Part I. Philosophical and Legal Issues -- The right to know and the right not to know : the emerging debate / Ruth Chadwick, Mairi L evitt and Darren Shickle -- Autonomy and a right not to know / J² rgen Husted -- Privacy and the right not to know : a plea for concep tual clarity / Graeme Laurie -- art II. Issues in Genetics -- Biobanks and feedback / Kadri Simm -- Suspects, victims and other s : producing and sharing forensic genetic knowledge / Robin William s and Matthias Weinroth -- Empowered by choice? / Mairi Levitt -- DIY genetics : the right to know your own genome / Barbara Prain sack -- Genomics, inconvenient truths and accountability / Jeanti ne Lunshof and Ruth Chadwick -- Part III. Emerging Issues -- The right to know and the right not to know in the era of neoliberal biopol itics and bioeconomy / Henk Ten Have -- The parental love argumen t against 'designing' babies : the harm in knowing that one has been se lected or enhanced / Anca Gheaus -- The press and the public inte rest / Joachim Allgaier -- The inescapability of knowing and inab ility to not know in the digital society / Richard Watermeyer -- The food we eat : the right to be informed and the duty to inform / Michiel Korthals.