Research Catalog

Title

Design and destiny : Jewish and Christian perspectives on human germline modification / edited by Ronald Cole-Turner.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors

Cole-Turner, Ronald, 1948-

Description

vi, 237 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Basic bioethics

Uniform Title

Basic bioethics

Subject

• Bioethics
• Christianity
• Genetic Engineering > ethics
• Genetic engineering > Christianity
• Genetic engineering > Judaism
• Germ Cells
• Judaism
• Medical genetics > Christianity
• Medical genetics > Judaism
• Religion and Medicine

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-227) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Religion and the question of human germline modification / Ronald Cole-Turner -- Judaism and germline modification / Elliot N. Dorff -- The Roman Catholic magisterium and genetic research: an overview and evaluation / Thomas A. Shannon -- A traditional Christian reflection on reengineering human nature / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. -- Germline gene modification and the human condition before God / Nigel M. de S. Cameron and Amy Michelle DeBaets -- Human germline therapy: proper human responsibility or playing God? / James J. Walter -- Germline genetics, human nature and social ethics / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Freedom, conscience and virtue: theological perspectives on the ethics of inherited genetic modification / Celia Deane-Drummond -- Religion, genetics and the future / Ronald Cole-Turner.

ISBN

• 9780262033732 (hardcover)
• 0262033739 (hardcover)
• 9780262533010 (pbk.)
• 0262533014 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2007032376

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library