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Controlling our dest...
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Controlling our destinies : historical, philosophical, ethical, and theological perspectives on the Human Genome Project / edited by Phillip R. Sloan.
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2000.
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Human Genome Project.
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0268008183 (alk. paper)
0268008205 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Studies in science and the humanities from the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values ; v. 5
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xxx, 535 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Introductory essay. Completing the tree of Descartes / Phillip R. Sloan -- pt. 1. Origins of the Genome Project: introductory commments. The Manhattan Project for biomedicine / Timothy Lenoir and Marguerite Hays. Whose work shall we trust? Genetics, pediatrics, and hereditary diseases in postwar France / Jean-Paul Gaudilliere. Commentary / Robert A. Bud. A book of life? How a genetic code became a language / Lily E. Kay. Commentary / Hans-Jorg Rheinberger. Origins of the U.S. Human Genome Project: the changing relationships between genetics and national security / John Beatty. Metaphors of morality in the Human Genome Project / Alice Domurat Dreger -- pt. 2. The Genome Project and eugenics: introductory comments. Defining the defective: eugenics, esthetics, and mass culture in early twentieth-century America / Martin S. Pernick. What's morally wrong with eugenics? / Arthur L. Caplan. Commentary / Timothy Murphy. Utopian eugenics and social inequality / Philip Kitcher. Commentary / Diane R. Paul -- pt. 3. Is a strong genetic reductionist program possible?: introductory comments. Is there an organism in this text? / Evelyn Fox Keller. Commentary / Jean Gayon. Reductionism and determinism in human genetics: lessons from simple organisms / Kenneth F. Schaffner. Commentary / Edward Manier -- pt. 4. Reductionism, determinism and theological humanism: introductory comments. Relating genetics to theology on the map of scientific knowledge / Arthur R. Peacocke. Biology and the theology of the human / Ernan McMullin. Philosophical anthropologies and the Human Genome Project / Kevin T. FitzGerald. Commentary / John M. Staudenmaier -- Afterword. The geneticization of western civilization: blessing or bane? / John M. Opitz
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