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Design and Destiny : Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Human Germline Modification.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Basic Bioethics SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (250 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262270632
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Design and DestinyDDC classification:
  • 201/.666065
LOC classification:
  • RB155.D42 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Religion and the Question of Human Germline Modification -- 2 Judaism and Germline Modification -- 3 The Roman Catholic Magisterium and Genetic Research: An Overview and Evaluation -- 4 A Traditional Christian Reflection on Reengineering Human Nature -- 5 Germline Gene Modification and the Human Condition before God -- 6 Human Germline Therapy: Proper Human Responsibility or Playing God? -- 7 Germline Genetics, Human Nature, and Social Ethics -- 8 Freedom, Conscience, and Virtue: Theological Perspectives on the Ethics of Inherited Genetic Modification -- 9 Religion, Genetics, and the Future -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Scholars discuss the genetic modification of embryonic cells from the viewpoints of traditional Jewish and Christian teaching, considering both the possible therapeutic benefits of this technology and moral concerns about its implementation.
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Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Religion and the Question of Human Germline Modification -- 2 Judaism and Germline Modification -- 3 The Roman Catholic Magisterium and Genetic Research: An Overview and Evaluation -- 4 A Traditional Christian Reflection on Reengineering Human Nature -- 5 Germline Gene Modification and the Human Condition before God -- 6 Human Germline Therapy: Proper Human Responsibility or Playing God? -- 7 Germline Genetics, Human Nature, and Social Ethics -- 8 Freedom, Conscience, and Virtue: Theological Perspectives on the Ethics of Inherited Genetic Modification -- 9 Religion, Genetics, and the Future -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Contributors -- Index.

Scholars discuss the genetic modification of embryonic cells from the viewpoints of traditional Jewish and Christian teaching, considering both the possible therapeutic benefits of this technology and moral concerns about its implementation.

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