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1 online resource (vi, 154 pages) |
| Contents |
Beyond playing God : critical religious genethics for pluralistic societies / Pfleiderer, G.; Brahier, G.; Lindpaintner, K. -- Genes-cells-interpretations : what hermeneutics can add to genetics and to bioethics / Rehmann-Sutter, C. -- Controversies about human dignity : implications for biotechnology / Childress, J.F. -- Global bioethics, theology, and human genetic engineering : the challenge of refashioning human nature in the face of moral and religious pluralism / Engelhardt, Jr., H.T. -- Eschewing images of man : against anthropological reductionism in bioethics / Graf, F.W. -- Children, bodies, life : ethics as the churches' biopolitics / Gehring, P. -- On the ethics debate between theologians, scientists and doctors : experiences, observations, and commentaries of a medical geneticist / Müller, H. -- "Biopower" : ethical and theological considerations / Mieth, D. -- First sheep, then human beings? : theological and ethical reflections on the use of gene technology / Schockenhoff, E. -- Is the human genome sacred? / Peters, T. -- The Jewish perspective on genethics / Green, R.M -- Human genetic technologies and Islamic bioethics / Nor, S.N.M. -- Buddhism and human genome research / Ratanakul, P |
| Summary |
Human gene and cell technology is a diverse and rapidly evolving field of research. As genes represent the 'blueprint' of an organism, their analysis and manipulation is a challenge to our understanding of human nature. Stem cell research, genetic testing, gene therapy, therapeutic and reproductive cloning - all these fields of application have been raising fundamental ethical and religious-theological questions: When does human life begin? Should human beings be allowed to interfere with natural procreation or to manipulate the genome of their own species? Is genetic engineering tantamount to 'playing God'? Based on the symposium 'GenEthics and Religion' held in Basel, Switzerland in May 2008, this volume examines the role religion can play in establishing ethical guidelines to protect human life in the face of rapid advances in biology and especially gene technology. It does so in a multidisciplinary way with contributions by philosophers, theologians, human geneticists, and several bioethicists representing the Christian, Jewish, Islamic and Buddhist perspectives. The essays illustrating a diversity of views and expressing the problems and self-critical reflectiveness of religious ethicists have been brought up to date and discuss the importance of religious ethics in society's discourse on gene technology |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
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English |
| Subject |
Genetic engineering -- Religious aspects -- Congresses
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Bioethics.
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Medicine -- Religious aspects.
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Genetics -- ethics
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Bioethical Issues
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Religion and Medicine
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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RELIGION -- Ethics.
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Medicine -- Religious aspects
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Bioethics
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Genetic engineering -- Religious aspects
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Gentechnologie
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Medizinische Ethik
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Christentum
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Judentum
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Islam
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Buddhismus
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Religion
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Ethik
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Gentechnologie -- Religion -- Kongressbericht.
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Religion -- Gentechnologie -- Kongressbericht.
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Gentechnologie -- Ethik -- Kongressbericht.
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Ethik -- Gentechnologie -- Kongressbericht.
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Gentechnologie.
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Medizinische Ethik.
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Christentum.
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Judentum.
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Islam.
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Buddhismus.
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pfleiderer, Georg
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Brahier, G. (Gabriela)
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Lindpaintner, K. (Klaus)
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| ISBN |
9783805589741 |
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3805589743 |
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1283439220 |
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9781283439220 |
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9786613439222 |
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6613439223 |
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