Ethics and the New Genetics : An Integrated Approach.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION: Employing Functional Specialization: Overview of a Group Experiment -- PART ONE: SOME BIOETHICAL ISSUES IN HUMAN GENETICS: DELINEATING THE OPPOSED STANCES -- 1 Research in Human Genetics: Technology, Information, Therapeutic Promise, and Challenge -- Response: Anne Summers -- 2 Clinical Applications of Research in Human Genetics -- Response: Jaro Kotalik -- 3 Genetics in Health Care -- 4 Commercialization of Human Genetic Research -- Response: Peter Ibbott -- PART TWO: DIFFERENTIATING THE PRE-EMPIRICAL COMPONENTS OF THE OPPOSED STANCES -- 5 The Character of Moral Value, Moral Knowledge, and Moral Debate -- Response: Moira McQueen -- 6 Religion as the Dynamic Horizon of Moral Discernment -- Response: Leo Walsh -- 7 Discerning Catholic Positions on Particular Ethical Issues -- Response: Albert Moraczewski -- PART THREE: TOWARD DETERMINING THE NORMATIVE STANCES -- 8 Who Owns the Human Genome? -- 9 Genetics, Medicine, and the Human Person: The Papal Theology -- 10 Key Issues in Genetic Research, Testing, and Patenting -- 11 Expanding Horizons for Moral Discernment: A Retrospective Synthesis -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Contributors.

At a think tank, a group of ethicists, geneticists, physicians, lawyers, and theologians gathered in an attempt to apply some features of Bernard Lonergan's notion of functional specialization to ethical debates surrounding genetics. Editor H. Daniel Monsour has brought together a series of articles presented at this think tank.

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