Modifying Our Genes: Theology, Science and "Playing God" - Softcover

Massmann, Alexander; Fox, Keith R.

 
9780334059530: Modifying Our Genes: Theology, Science and "Playing God"
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0334059534 ISBN 13: 9780334059530
Verlag: SCM Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

•An ethicist and a scientist bring their respective expertise to bear on an important moral, ethical and theological issue•Keith Fox speaks widely at a local and national level about medical ethics.•Written with clarity in mind, and featuring a glossary and other material to help communicate the science•Balanced in approach, carefully refusing the kinds of knee-jerk ethical reactions which so often plague this debate. If our bodies could do more things, would our lives be better? Genome editing is a rapidly developing technology that can modify human genes. It can cure heritable diseases, but we could even make certain genetic “improvements” to healthy people. Should we change human embryos genetically to achieve such goals?Bringing together a leading molecular biologist and a Christian ethicist this book responds to the need for solid information and helpful orientation for a pressing moral issue. They explain relevant technical issues without the jargon, clarify the most important philosophical and religious arguments and bring empirical insights to the question of what helps us lead meaningful lives.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alexander Massmann is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He received his Ph.D. for a study on 20th century theology and ethics. Having published in the subject area of this book proposal, he works in theological ethics, science and theology, and Christian doctrine. Apart from recent articles in biomedical ethics and the science and theology dialogue, he is also the author of Citizenship in Heaven and on Earth: Karl Barth's Ethics (Fortress, 2015) and editor of Deathless Hopes: Reinventions of Afterlife and Eschatological Beliefs (LIT, 2018, together with C. Hays)

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Verlag
SCM Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0334059534
ISBN 13 
9780334059530
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
160
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