Ethics and the New Genetics
An Integrated Approach
Published on 26. May 2007
Book
Hardback
210 pages
978-0-8020-9273-1 (ISBN)
Description
Everyday, new advances are being made in the science of human genetics. Accompanying progress in this area, however, are new ethical dilemmas. At a think tank sponsored by the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute, an interdisciplinary group of ethicists, geneticists, physicians, lawyers, and theologians gathered in an attempt to apply some features of Bernard Lonergan's notion of functional specialization to ethical debates surrounding genetics. Editor H. Daniel Monsour has brought together a series of articles presented at this think tank. The articles accomplish two tasks: first, they explore some of the advances in human genetic that continue to prompt ethical debate and outline the different stances on those issues; second, they examine those stances in the context of Roman Catholic moral and religious thought. Timely, innovative, and wide-ranging, this collection will be of interest to bioethicists and philosophers, as well as religious and Lonerganian scholars.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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With printed dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
460 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8020-9273-1 (9780802092731)
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H. Daniel Monsour is an associate editor of the Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan and holds a PhD in theology from the University of Toronto.
Content
Preface MICHAEL VERTININTRODUCTION EmployingFunctional Specialization: Overview of a Group Experiment MICHAELVERTINPART ONE: SOME BIOETHICAL ISSUES IN HUMAN GENETICS: DELINEATING THE OPPOSED STANCES Research in Human Genetics: Technology, Information, Therapeutic Promise, and Challenge ROBERT ALLORE Response: Anne Summers Clinical Applications of Research in Human Genetics CHRISTINE E. JAMIESON Response: Jaro Kotalik Genetics in Health Care ANNE SUMMERS Commercialization of Human Genetic Research DAVID BLAKE FARRELL and EILEEN DE NEEVE Response: Peter IbbottPART TWO: DIFFERENTIATING THE PRE-EMPIRICAL COMPONENTS OF THE OPPOSED STANCES The Character of Moral Value, Moral Knowledge, and Moral Debate CYNTHIA CRYSDALE Response: Moira McQueen Religion as the Dynamic Horizon of Moral Discernment GORDON RIXON Response: Leo Walsh Discerning Catholic Positions on Particular Ethical Issues JOHN DOOL Response: Albert MoraczewskiPART THREE: TOWARD DETERMINING THE NORMATIVE STANCES Who Owns the Human Genome? DANIEL P. SULMASY Genetics, Medicine, and the Human Person: The Papal Theology JOSEPH BOYLE Key Issues in Genetic Research, Testing, and Patenting BARRY F. BROWN and RUSSELL J. SAWA Expanding Horizons for Moral Discernment: A Retrospective Synthesis WILLIAM F. SULLIVANIndex Contributors