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Title Design and destiny : Jewish and Christian perspectives on human germline modification / edited by Ronald Cole-Turner
Published Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource
Series Basic bioethics
Basic bioethics.
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 re-engineering 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
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
Analysis PHILOSOPHY/Ethics & Bioethics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Medical genetics -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Medical genetics -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Genetic engineering -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Genetic engineering -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Bioethics.
Christianity.
Germ cells.
Judaism.
Medicine -- Religious aspects.
Genetic Engineering -- ethics
Bioethics
Christianity
Germ Cells
Judaism
Religion and Medicine
Christianity.
Judaism.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Gaia & Earth Energies.
Medicine -- Religious aspects
Judaism
Germ cells
Christianity
Bioethics
Medical genetics -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
Genetic engineering -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
Genetic engineering -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Medical genetics -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Mensch
Klonierung
Christliche Ethik
Form Electronic book
Author Cole-Turner, Ronald, 1948-
ISBN 9780262270632
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