Controlling our destinies historical, philosophical, ethical, and theological perspectives on the Human Genome Project
The Human Genome Project, an international scientific enterprise aimed at attaining a complete sequence and locator map of the entire human genetic structure by the year 2005, constitutes the largest single project ever undertaken in the life sciences. When completed, it will help pinpoint the genet...
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Notre Dame, IN :
University of Notre Dame Press
[2000]
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| Colección: | Studies in science and the humanities from the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values ;
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introductory essay. Completing the tree of Descartes / Phillip R. Sloan
- pt. 1. Origins of the Genome Project: introductory comments. The Manhattan Project for biomedicine / Timothy Lenoir and Marguerite Hays. Whose work shall we trust? Genetics, pediatrics, and hereditary diseases in postwar France / Jean-Paul Gaudillière. Commentary / Robert A. Bud. A book of life? How a genetic code became a language / Lily E. Kay. Commentary / Hans-Jörg Rheinberger. Origins of the U.S. Human Genome Project: the changing relationships between genetics and national security / John Beatty. Metaphors of morality in the Human Genome Project / Alice Domurat Dreger
- pt. 2. The Genome Project and eugenics: introductory comments. Defining the defective: eugenics, esthetics, and mass culture in early twentieth-century America / Martin S. Pernick. What's morally wrong with eugenics? / Arthur L. Caplan. Commentary / Timothy Murphy. Utopian eugenics and social inequality / Philip Kitcher. Commentary / Diane R. Paul
- pt. 3. Is a strong genetic reductionist program possible?: introductory comments. Is there an organism in this text? / Evelyn Fox Keller. Commentary / Jean Gayon. Reductionism and determinism in human genetics: lessons from simple organisms / Kenneth F. Schaffner. Commentary / Edward Manier
- pt. 4. Reductionism, determinism and theological humanism: introductory comments. Relating genetics to theology on the map of scientific knowledge / Arthur R. Peacocke. Biology and the theology of the human / Ernan McMullin. Philosophical anthropologies and the Human Genome Project / Kevin T. FitzGerald. Commentary / John M. Staudenmaier
- Afterword. The geneticization of western civilization: blessing or bane? / John M. Opitz
