The ethics of genetic engineering / edited by Maureen Junker-Kenny and Lisa Sowle Cahill. - London : Maryknoll, NY : SCM Press ; Orbis Books, c1998. - xiii, 124 p. ; 22 cm. - Concilium ; 1998/2 . - Concilium (Glen Rock, N.J.) ; 1998/2. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Editorial: Genetics, ethics and social policy : the state of the question / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Genetic knowledge as a commodity : the Human Genome Project, markets and consumers / Julie Clague -- Gene therapy and the improvement of human nature : ethical questions / Sandro Spinsanti -- Ethical questions in genetic counselling : how far do concepts like 'non-directivity' and 'ethical neutrality' help in solving problems? / Stella Reiter-Theil -- Genetic counselling : parental autonomy or acceptance of limits? / Liz Hepburn -- The moral status of the embryo / Maureen Junker-Kenny -- Genetics and the future of American law and policy / M. Cathleen Kaveny -- Power, ethics and the poor in human genetic research / M�arcio Fabri dos Anjos -- First sheep, then human beings? : theological and ethical reflections on the use of gene technology / Eberhard Schockenhoff -- Feminist theologies and the new genetics / Maura A. Ryan -- Cloning : technical reality and ethical evaluation / Marciano Vidal -- The ethics of medical genetics. An annotated bibliography / Sigrid Graumann and Christof Mandry.


Some contributions translated from German, Italian, and Spanish.

033403048X (UK) 9780334030485 (UK) 1570751889 (USA) 9781570751882 (USA)

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Genetic engineering--Moral and ethical aspects.
Genetic engineering--Religious aspects--Christianity.

QH438.7 / .E84 1998