Regenerative medicine is rich with promethean promises. The use
of human embryonic stem cells in research is justified by its
advocates in terms of promises to cure a wide range of diseases and
disabilities, from Alzheimer s and Parkinsonism to the results of
heart attacks and spinal cord injuries. More broadly, there is the
promethean allure of being able to redesign human biological nature
in terms of the goals and concerns of humans. Needless to say,
these allures and promises have provoked a wide range of not just
moral but metaphysical reflections that reveal and reflect deep
fault-lines in our cultures. The essays in this volume, directly
and indirectly, present the points of controversy as they tease out
the character of the moral issues that confront any attempt to
develop the human regenerative technologies that might move us from
a human to a post-human nature. Although one can appreciate the
disputes as independently philosophical, they are surely also a
function of the conflict between a Christian and a post-Christian
culture, in that Christianity has from its beginning recognized a
fundamental prohibition against the taking of early human life.
Even the philosophical disputes that frame secular bioethics are
often motivated and shaped by these background cultural conflicts.
These essays display this circumstance in rich ways."
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