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Adam, Eve, and the Genome - The Human Genome Project and Theology (Paperback, New)
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Adam, Eve, and the Genome - The Human Genome Project and Theology (Paperback, New)
Series: Theology and the Sciences
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The project to map the human genetic codes has been widely hailed
as a monumental achievement with vast medical promise. Yet the
project is also fraught with ambiguities and, Susan Thistlethwaite
claims, great potential dangers to society. This important book
combines a basic primer on genetic research with ethical reflection
by an interdisciplinary team on key questions and a deeper look, in
light of such research, at what it means to be human. Part 1 of the
book places genetic research in historical perspective, including
the historical prickliness between science and religion. It shows
how we have gotten from Gregor Mendel's experiments with peas to
today's Human Genome Project. Part 2 explores ethical issues posed
by genetic testing, screening, and counseling; gene therapy;
stem-cell research; dangers of misuse through genetic
identification; and engineering of particular populations (violent
people, ethnic groups, gays and lesbians). Part 3 explores the
possibilities of reconstruing human identity for the coming
"biological age." Contributors include Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite,
Laurel Schneider, Lainie Ross, Theodore W. Jennings Jr., Ken Stone,
and Lee Butler.
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