Playing God?: Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate

Playing God?: Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate
ISBN-10
0226222616
ISBN-13
9780226222615
Category
Science
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
John H. Evans

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Framework for Understanding the Thinning of a Public Debate2. Setting the Stage: The Eugenicists and the Challenge from Theologians3. Gene Therapy, Advisory Commissions, and the Birth of the Bioethics Profession4. The President's Commission: The "Neutral" Triumph of Formal Rationality5. Regaining Lost Jurisdictional Ground and the Triumph of the Bioethics Profession6. "Reproduction" as the New Jurisdictional Metaphor: Autonomy and the Internal Threat to the Bioethics/Science Jurisdiction7. Conclusion: The Future of Public Bioethics and the HGE DebateAppendix: Methods and TablesNotesWorks CitedIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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