Book ID: CBB000110575

Controlling Our Destinies: Historical, Philosophical, Ethical, and Theological Perspectives on the Human Genome Project (2000)

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Sloan, Phillip R. (Editor)


University of Notre Dame Press


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: xxx + 535 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index
Language: English

Description Contents: Phillip R. Sloan, Introductory Essay: Completing the Tree of Descartes; Timothy Lenoir, Marguerite Hays, The Manhattan Project for Biomedicine; Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Whose Work Shall We Trust? Genetics, Pediatrics, and Hereditary Diseases in Postwar France; Robert A. Bud, Commentary; Lily Kay, A Book of Life? How a Genetic Code Became a Language; Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Commentary; John Beatty, Origins of the U. S. Human Genome Project: The Changing Relationships Between Genetics and National Security; Alice Domurat Dreger, Metaphors of Morality in the Human Genome Project; Martin S. Pernick, Defining the Defective: Eugenics, Esthetics, and Mass Culture in Early Twentieth-Century America; Arthur L. Caplan, What's Morally Wrong with Eugenics? Timothy Murphy, Commentary; Philip Kitcher, Utopian Eugenics and Social Inequality; Diane R. Paul, Commentary; Evelyn Fox Keller, Is There an Organism in This Text? Jean Gayon, Commentary; Kenneth F. Schaffner, Reductionism and Determinism in Human Genetics: Lessons from Simple Organisms; Edward Manier, Commentary; Arthur R. Peacocke, Relating Genetics to Theology on the Map of Scientific Knowledge; Ernan McMullin, Biology and the Theology of the Human; Kevin T. Fitzgerald, Philosophical Anthropologies and the Human Genome Project; John M. Staudenmaier, Commentary; Richard A. Mccormick, Moral Theology and the Genome Project; John M. Opitz, Afterword: The Geneticization of Western Civilization: Blessing or Bane?


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Authors & Contributors
Battisti, Davide
Yudell, Michael
Wolfe, Audra Jayne
Weiss, Sheila Faith
Shostak, Stanley
Sachse, Carola
Concepts
Genetics
Human genetics
Eugenics
Evolution
Science and ethics
Science and politics
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
21st century
19th century
Places
United States
Germany
Soviet Union
Institutions
Human Genome Project
UNESCO
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Anthropologie, Menschliche Erblehre und Eugenik
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