Ethics and the New Genetics : : An Integrated Approach / / H. Daniel Monsour.

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• VerfasserIn: Monsour, H. Daniel,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Lonergan Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. Employing Functional Specialization: Overview of a Group Experiment -- Part One. Some Bioethical Issues in Human Genetics: Delineating the Opposed Stances -- 1. Research in Human Genetics: Technology, Information, Therapeutic Promise, and Challenge / Allore, Robert -- 2. Clinical Applications of Research in Human Genetics / Jamieson, Christine E. -- 3. Genetics in Health Care / Summers, Anne -- 4. Commercialization of Human Genetic Research / Farrell, David Blake / Neeve, Eileen De -- Part Two. Differentiating the Pre-Empirical Components of the Opposed Stances -- 5. The Character of Moral Value, Moral Knowledge, and Moral Debate / Crysdale, Cynthia -- 6. Religion as the Dynamic Horizon of Moral Discernment / Rixon, Gordon -- 7. Discerning Catholic Positions on Particular Ethical Issues / Dool, John -- Part Three. Toward Determining the Normative Stances -- 8. Who Owns the Human Genome? / Sulmasy, Daniel P. -- 9. Genetics, Medicine, and the Human Person: The Papal Theology / Boyle, Joseph -- 10. Key Issues in Genetic Research, Testing, and Patenting / Brown, Barry F. / Sawa, Russell J. -- 11. Expanding Horizons for Moral Discernment: A Retrospective Synthesis / Sullivan, William F. -- Index -- Contributors