GenEthics and Religion

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GenEthics and Religion

Contents

Beyond Playing God: Critical Religious GenEthics for Pluralistic Societies

Playing God?

Foundations: Hermeneutic and Conceptional Reflections

The Function of Religion in GenEthical Debates: Critical Analyses

Examining Constructive Efforts of Religious Genethics. Christian Theological Genethics

Jewish, Islamic, and Buddhist GenEthics

Beyond Playing God

Context, Acknowledgments, and Dedication

Footnote

Genes – Cells – Interpretations What Hermeneutics Can Add to Genetics and to Bioethics

Prologue

Hermeneutics

Political Texts

Metaphysical Texts

Who Is the Author of the Genetic Text?

We Do Our Genes

Footnotes

References

Controversies about Human Dignity: Implications for Biotechnology

Introduction

Conception I: HD as a Standard of Duties or Rights

Conception II: HD as a Standard of Virtue

Conflicting Appeals to HD in Public Bioethics: The Example of Human Genetic Enhancement

A Public Precautionary Process

Footnotes

References

Global Bioethics, Theology, and Human Genetic Engineering: The Challenge of Refashioning Human Nature in the Face of Moral and Religious Pluralism

There Is No Substantive Secular Global Bioethics to Guide Human Genetic Engineering

The Plurality of Moralities

The Illusion of Consensus

Separated by Heresy and Disbelief

Always a View from Somewhere

Footnotes

References

Eschewing Images of Man: Against Anthropological Reductionism in Bioethics

Religious Language: Radical Openness to Interpretation

The Dignity of God Seems Not to Be Inviolable: The Abuse of Religious Language in Ethics

Eschewing Images of Man: Against Anthropological Reductionism in Bioethics

References

Children, Bodies, Life: Ethics as the Churches’ Biopolitics

Power of the Churches

Human Life as a Biological Entity

Bioethicization of the Churches’ Positions

Time Factor

Five Theses

Footnotes

References

On the Ethics Debate between Theologians, Scientists and Doctors: Experiences, Observations and Commentaries of a Medical Geneticist

Premises

What, in the View of Doctors or Natural Scientists, Should Theologians Contribute to the Debate?

What Meaning Do Natural Scientists and Doctors Attach to the Terms ‘Facts, Data, Truth’?

Beware of Simplification, Generalization and Polarization

Who May Give the Answers?

Fostering an Interdisciplinary Dialogue

References

‘Biopower’ – Ethical and Theological Considerations

Biopower: Moratorium Instead of Ban?

In vivo Cloning and in vitro Cloning – Biopower in the ‘Politics of Language’

Theological Arguments on the Ethics of Human Genetics

The Anthropological Question: The Ethical ‘Status’ of the Early Embryo

The So-Called ‘Freedom of Procreation’ and the Instrumentalization of Women

References

Further Reading

First Sheep, Then Human Beings? Theological and Ethical Reflections on the Use of Gene Technology

Limits of Nature – Limits of Ethics?

The Right Not to Know

The Right to Natural Birth and Genetic Chance

Is the Human Genome Sacred?

A Rumor Out of Control

Are We Really Playing God?

Is the Gene Myth Warranted?

The Chimera Question

Avoiding Bio-Idolatry

From Nature to Naturalism

References

The Jewish Perspective on GenEthics

Preserving Human Life

Development and Nascent Human Life

Openness to Technology

Conclusion

References

Human Genetic Technologies and Islamic Bioethics

The Fiqh and the Maqasid al-Shariah

New Frontiers in Human Genetics and the Maqasid al-Shariah

Conclusion

References

Buddhism and Human Genome Research

Buddhism and Science

Buddhist Ethics

The Human Genome Project and Human Values

Genetic Manipulation and Human Dignity

Human Cloning and Stem Cell Research

Conclusion

Footnotes

References

Author Index

Subject Index

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G. Pfleiderer Basel

G. Brahier Basel

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When we now look back on the history of the genetic program we see that it was an attractive preconception about the meaning of the genome drawing on the language of computers, whose attractiveness can be explained in the historical and cultural context in the second half of the 20th century. It was essentially an anticipated story of how the genes work, invented before experimental knowledge in developmental genetics was available. Lily Kay has written the ‘history of the genetic code’ in a book with the ambiguous title ‘Who Wrote the Book of Life?’ [4].

The book of life was meant to be a book written by nature. But it turns out that it is rather written by humans, scientists in particular, but not just by them. We have seen politicians play their role as well. This writing, it emerges, happens not on the level of the genes but on the level of the explanations that have been promulgated and were selected because they seemed to be more meaningful than others.

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