Brave New World? Theology, Ethics and the Human Genome

includes index and biblioraphy

PART I - WHAT is GENETIC SCIENCE DOING? 1 1 Genetics and Genetic Modificadon of Humans:Principles, Practice and Possibilities 5 John Bryant and Peter Turnpenny 2 Genes, Genetics and the Human Genome: Some Personal Reflections 27 MaryJ. Seller PART II - REINTERPRETING LIFE AND DEATH 45 3 `And in the World to Come, Life Everlasting` 49 Michael J. Reiss 4 The Human Genome and the Image of God 68 Ruth Page PART III - QUESTIONING IMPLICIT NORMS 5 The Human Genome Project, Health and the `Tyranny of Normality` Neil G. Messer 6 Genes and the Self: Anthropological Questions to the Human Genome Project Maureen Junker-Kenny PART IV - DISCERNING HISTORICAL TRAJECTORIES 7 That Deep Surface: The Human Genome Project and the Death of the Human Bronislaw Szerszynski 8 The Human Genome Project as Soteriological Project Robert Song PART V - RETHINKING BIOETHICS 9 Beyond Beneficence: The Emergence of Genomorality and the Common Good Julie Clague 10 How Might a Virtue Ethic Frame Debates in Human Genetics? Celia Deane-Drummond PART VI - IDENTIFYING SOCIAL AND POLITICAL GOODS 11 Whose Genes Are They? Genetics, Patenting and the Churches Donald Bruce 12 Thinking Liturgically Esther D. Reed 13 Is the Goodness of God Good Enough? The Human Genome Project in Theological and Political Perspective Peter Scott