Adam, Eve, and the Genome: The Human Genome Project and TheologySusan Brooks Thistlethwaite Fortress Press - 200 Seiten The project to map the human genetic codes has been widely hailed as a monumental achievement with vast medical promise. Yet the project is also fraught with ambiguities and, Susan Thistlethwaite claims, great potential dangers to society. This important book combines a basic primer on genetic research with ethical reflection by an interdisciplinary team on key questions and a deeper look, in light of such research, at what it means to be human. Part 1 of the book places genetic research in historical perspective, including the historical prickliness between science and religion. It shows how we have gotten from Gregor Mendel's experiments with peas to today's Human Genome Project. Part 2 explores ethical issues posed by genetic testing, screening, and counseling; gene therapy; stem-cell research; dangers of misuse through genetic identification; and engineering of particular populations (violent people, ethnic groups, gays and lesbians). Part 3 explores the possibilities of reconstruing human identity for the coming "biological age." Contributors include Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, Laurel Schneider, Lainie Ross, Theodore W. Jennings Jr., Ken Stone, and Lee Butler. |
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Medieval Science in the West | 28 |
The Reformation and the Renaissance | 31 |
Descartes | 33 |
Newton | 36 |
Darwin | 44 |
The Story of Adam and Eve as Etiological Text | 117 |
Who Asks Etiological Questions? | 121 |
Critical Issues | 127 |
Dreaming the Soul African American Skepticism Encounters the Human Genome Project | 129 |
Racism in American History as a Feature of the American Dream | 132 |
A Different Dream of Being Human | 136 |
Dreaming of Freedom | 139 |
The New Dream | 141 |
Freud | 47 |
An Introduction to Mendelian Genetics | 52 |
DNA | 53 |
Autosomal Recessive Conditions | 54 |
Autosomal Dominant Conditions | 61 |
XLinked Conditions | 63 |
From Peapods to the Human Genome Project PostMendelian Genetics | 69 |
Chromosomal Variations | 70 |
Clinical Genetics | 77 |
Ethical and Policy Issues | 83 |
Being Human | 91 |
Theological Anthropology and the Human Genome Project | 93 |
Theology and Science | 94 |
Bringing Theology to the Human Genome Project | 98 |
Redemption and Resurrection | 102 |
Imago Dei | 109 |
Reflections on Romans | 110 |
Adam Eve and the Genome | 112 |
The Quest for a Gay Gene as Etiological Text | 115 |
On Being Human | 143 |
A Gene for Violence? Genetic Determinism and Sin | 145 |
Genetic Determinism | 148 |
Flies Who Rape? | 149 |
Flawed Science | 151 |
Human Freedom and Genetics | 152 |
Human DignityIn the Image of God | 153 |
Social Sin and Human Violence | 155 |
To Sin Rationally | 157 |
The Chemistry of Community | 161 |
The Case of Hypertension in African Americans | 163 |
The Case of Breast Cancer | 165 |
Grace | 167 |
SoulBody Dualism | 171 |
The Grace of Community | 173 |
Notes | 175 |
Glossary | 188 |
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