Nutrition and Genomics
Issues of Ethics, Law, Regulation and Communication
- 1st Edition - March 9, 2009
- Editors: David Castle, Nola Ries
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 7 4 1 2 5 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 9 2 0 8 2 - 5
Nutrigenomics is the rapidly developing field of science that studies nutrient-gene interaction. This field has broad implications for understanding the interaction of human… Read more
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Request a sales quote- Explores the rapidly developing, yet not fully understood, impact of nutrigenomics on the relationship to food medicalization, genetic privacy, nutrition and health
- Provides ground for further exploration to identify issues and provide analysis to aid in policy and regulation development
- Provides ethical and legal insights into this unfolding science, as well as serving as a model for thinking about issues arising in other fields of science and technology
Editor’s Introduction
Chapter 1
Nutrigenomics: Current Research Trends
Jose Ordovas
Chapter 2
Translating Nutrigenomics Research into Practice: The Example of Soy Protein
Elaine S. Krul and Peter J. Gillies
Chapter 3
Application of Nutrigenomics: An Industry Perspective
Rosalynn Gill-Garrison
Chapter 4
Regulation of Genetic Tests: An International Comparison
Stuart Hogarth
Chapter 5
Risk-Based Regulation of Direct-to-Consumer Nutrigenetic Tests
Nola M. Ries
Chapter 6
The Impact of Genomics on Innovation in Foods and Drugs: Can Canadian Law Step Up to the Challenge?
Karine Morin
Chapter 7
Placing healthy eating in the everyday context: towards an action approach of gene-based personalized nutrition advice
Laura Bouwman & Cees van Woerkum
Chapter 8
Health Care Provider Capacity in Nutrition and Genetics-A Canadian Case Study
Jennifer Farrell
Chapter 9
Advancing Knowledge Translation in Nutritional Genomics by Addressing Knowledge, Skills and Confidence Gaps of Registered Dietitians
Ellen Vogel, Ruth DeBusk, and Milly Ryan-Harshman
Chapter 10
Understanding Hopes and Concerns about Nutrigenomics: Canadian public opinion research involving health care professionals and the public
Allan Cassels
Chapter 11
Pitching products, pitching ethics: Selling nutrigenetic tests as lifestyle or medicine
Paula Saukko
Chapter 12
Framing Nutrigenomics for Individual and Public Health: Public Representations of an Emerging Field
Timothy Caulfield, Jacob Shelley, Tania Bubela & Leia Minaker
Chapter 13
The Personal and the Public in Nutrigenomics
David Castle
Chapter 14
Food Styles and the Future of Nutrigenomics
Michiel Korthals
Editor’s Conclusion
- No. of pages: 312
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 9, 2009
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780123741257
- eBook ISBN: 9780080920825
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