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Design and destiny : Jewish and Christian perspectives on human germline modification
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Design and destiny : Jewish and Christian perspectives on human germline modification

Author: Ronald Cole-Turner
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
Series: Basic bioethics.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Scholars discuss the genetic modification of embryonic cells from the viewpoints of traditional Jewish and Christian teaching, considering both the possible therapeutic benefits of this technology and  Read more...

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Design and destiny.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008
(OCoLC)608479890
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Ronald Cole-Turner
ISBN: 9780262033732 0262033739 9780262533010 0262533014
OCLC Number: 166255036
Description: vi, 237 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Religion and the question of human germline modification / Ronald Cole-Turner --
Judaism and germline modification / Elliot N. Dorff --
The Roman Catholic magisterium and genetic research: an overview and evaluation / Thomas A. Shannon --
A traditional Christian reflection on reengineering human nature / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. --
Germline gene modification and the human condition before God / Nigel M. de S. Cameron and Amy Michelle DeBaets --
Human germline therapy: proper human responsibility or playing God? / James J. Walter --
Germline genetics, human nature and social ethics / Lisa Sowle Cahill --
Freedom, conscience and virtue: theological perspectives on the ethics of inherited genetic modification / Celia Deane-Drummond --
Religion, genetics and the future / Ronald Cole-Turner.
Series Title: Basic bioethics.
Responsibility: edited by Ronald Cole-Turner.
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