Naujausi A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T V W Y Z
Autoriai: JAMES C. PETERSON
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ISBN: 0-8028-4920-2
Brūkšninis kodas: 003075180295
Ieškoti VUB kataloge
Anotacija:
"James Peterson has performed a valuable public service with his clear, well-informed, and instructive theological and ethical reflection on applied human genetics, including genetic interventions. This book should be widely read and pondered."
- James F. CHILDRESS / Kyle Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of Medical Education, University of Virginia
"Peterson's book is an excellent resource for those who counsel patients or guardians regarding testing or therapy decisions."
- GEORGE C. BARRETT, M.D. / President of the Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States
"This highly stimulating, well-argued, and richly documented work will be warmly welcomed by all engaged in this important field of discussion. An essential resource for religious perspectives on the major new debates concerning the ethics of genetic modification, Genetic Turning Points deserves to be widely read."
- ALISTER E. McGRATH / Principal of Wycliffe Hall and Professor of Historical Theology, Oxford University
"Peterson has written a remarkably profound, insightful, sensitive, lucid, and helpful book for professionals and general readers alike."
- HESSEL BOUMA III / Geneticist at Calvin College and Chairman of the Bioethics Commission of the American Scientific Affiliation
"Genetic Turning Points is an outstanding study of the problem of genetic engineering and related ethical issues. It addresses difficult and sometimes technical matters in a style that is both clear and scholarly, and it provides valuable
insights into issues that are being thrust to the fore by scientific progress. Genes store the directions for all life on earth. If you want to know where we might be going, read this book. It is a road map that can save you from many ill-fated journeys."
- WILLIAM R. SHEA / President of the International Academy of the History of Science and Director of the Institute for the History of Science, University of Strasbourg
"JAMES C. PETERSON served as a Research Fellow in molecular and clinical genetics at the University of Iowa and earned a Ph.D. in ethics at the University of Virginia. He is now the C. C. Dickson Associate Professor of Ethics at Wingate University, Wingate, North Carolina."
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Why Focus on Human Genetic Intervention?
Why Ethics?
The Need for Clarity
The Need for Widespread Reflection
The Need to Think Ahead Why Include Christian Resources? Book Structure
In Broad Outline
Chapter by Chapter
CONTEXT
1. Science: To Better Understand Part of the World and Ourselves
Science and the Christian Tradition
Method
A History of Conflict?
The Science of Human Genetics in Particular
Genetics and the Human Body
Genetics and Human Behavior Genes Illuminate Needed Attitudes
Humility
Respect
Community
Responsibility
Compassion
Chapter Summary
2. What Technology Can Do for Us and to Us
Technology Is Necessary Technological Change Is Accelerating Technology Is Becoming More Intricate Technology Is Formative Technology Is Malleable Chapter Summary
3. The Purpose of Technology from a Christian Perspective:
To Sustain, Restore, and Improve
The Point of Human Life
To Love God
To Love Your Neighbor as Yourself
The Place Where We Live
Creation: A Place to Choose and Care
Redemption: A Place to Be Reconciled and to Heal
Transformation: A Place to Grow and Develop
Chapter Summary
PARTI GENETIC RESEARCH
4. Searching for Genes and the Individual
Worthy Goals and Significant Dangers
The Individual as a Voluntary Partner
Respect
Competence
Understood Disclosure
Genetic Research in Particular
Description of Purpose
Discomforts and Risks
Confidentiality
Chapter Summary
5. Searching for Genes and Family
Volunteering Someone Else
For Children
For Zygote, Embryo, Fetus
Scripture
Developmental Steps
Burden of Proof
Chapter Summary
6. Searching for Genes and Community
Group Consent Gene Patents Social Investment Chapter Summary
PART II GENETIC TESTING
7. Testing Genes and the Individual
The Proliferation of Genetic Tests
To Treat Disease
Vigilance
Targeting Treatment
To Plan for the Future
The Problem of Probabilities
Value and Risk of Predictive Testing Resources from the Christian Tradition
Chapter Summary
8. Testing Genes and Family
Family News
Sharing Genes
Duty to Tell or Hear?
Children as a Special Case Decisive Procreation
Prospective Mates
Gamete Selection and Changing the Natural Course
Zygote Selection
Tentative Pregnancy Chapter Summary
9. Testing Genes and Community
Insurance
Genetic Information and the Current System of Medical Insurance in the United States
Protecting Genetic Information as a Special Case
Providing a Decent Minimum of Health Care for All Employers
Avoiding Costs
Employee and Customer Safety Government
Identification
Cost Containment
The Influence of Public Policy Church
Worship
Teaching
Caring
Chapter Summary
PART III
GENETIC DRUGS: ADDING GENE PRODUCTS TO THE BODY
10. Genetic Drugs and the Individual
Intervention Only to Cure Disease
Disease as a Value-Free Description
Disease as a Rejected Physical State
Disease as a Hindrance to Basic Function
Intervention Only to Health
Definitions That Welcome Physical Improvement
Health as Tied to Our Current Condition
Holding the Line at Cure of Disease
Chapter Summary
11. Genetic Drugs and a Family's Children: Four Standards
Safe
Improvement for the Recipient
Open Future
Best Use of Limited Resources Chapter Summary
12. Genetic Drugs and Community
Physicians and the Goals of Medicine Government Interest in Equality of Opportunity
Affording Provision
Provision Across Borders
Chapter Summary
PART IV
GENETIC SURGERY: CHANGING GENES IN THE HUMAN BODY
13. Changing Genes and the Individual
Possibilities
Improving Our Genes?
Physical Attributes Should Remain as They Are Now
Physical Attributes Should Change Attitudes Encouraged by Intervention
Making People?
Staying Connected
The Case of Human Cloning
Inadequate Reasons
Reasons That Have More Weight
Concerns about Deliberate Genetic Twinning
Chapter Summary
14. Changing Genes and the Family Line
Distinguishing Somatic and Germline Intervention
Why Change the Germline?
Concern for Future Generations
Three Often-Voiced Constraints
Chapter Summary
15. Changing Genes and Community
Coercion and Eugenics
Racism
Using the Analogy
Welcoming Diversity Who Decides?
Chance
Future Generations
Research Scientists
Physicians
Expert Panel
Parents
Legislatures
A Workable Model
Chapter Summary
A Concluding Perspective from the Christian Tradition
Genes Are an Important Part of Human Life
Genes Are Only a Part of Human Life
Genes Are Only Part of Our Physical Form
Our Physical Form Is Only Part of Human Life
So What Place for Human Genetic Intervention?
Author Index
Subject Index
