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 theolo...

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