Contributors look at how the 'new' genetics, healthcare and arising health policy can or should be governed and regulated, rather than focusing on individualistic ethical issues, this text takes a broader, international public health approach.

Section 1: Introduction: Genetic, Governance, and Ethics Section 2: Ethics, Risk and Governance 1. Ethics of Clinical Genetics: The Spirit of the Profession and Trials of Suitability from 1970 to 2000 2. Risk Management and Ethics in High-Tech Antenatal Care: The Finnish Experience 3. The First Genetic Screening in Finland: Its Execution, Evaluation and some Possible Implications for Liberal Government 4. Choice as Responsibility: Genetic Testing as Citizenship through Familial Obligation and the Management of Risk Section 3: Risk, Population and Identity 5. From Eugenics to the Government of Genetic Risks 6. The Sociology of the New Genetics: Conceptualising the Links Between Reproduction, Gender and Bodies 7. Who's Right to Choose? The New Genetics, Prenatal Testing and People 8. 'New' Genetics Meets the Old Underclass: Findings from a Study of Genetic Outreach Services in Rural Kentucky Section 4: Knowledge, Goverance, and the Future 9. Public Health And The `New Genetics': Balancing Individual And Collective Outcomes 10. More Than Code: From Genetic Reductionism To Complex Biological Systems 11. Emerging Forms of Governance in Genomics and Post-Genomics: Structures, Trends, Perspectives