Human Genome Research:
Subtitle: And the Challenge of Contingent Future Persons
Publisher: CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Published: January 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9781881871194
Subjects: Genetic Engineering; Impact of science & technology on society; Medical ethics; Human Genetics; Science; Religion - Church History; Science/Mathematics; General; Religion / Christianity / Theology / Ethics; Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics; Human Genome Project; Human gene mapping; Moral and ethical aspects; Social aspects
Description: Human Genome Research and the Challenge of Contingent Future Persons is an investigation into how the Human Genome Project is likely to affect future generations. It explores the implications these effects hold for evaluating genetic research, particularly from a theological perspective. Examining the economic, political, and philosophical issues underlying genetic research, Heller finds that some future people may bear an inordinate share of certain social costs stemming from the Project's biomedical applications. Further, the existence, numbers, and identities of those people will be contingent on decisions made based on this research. Heller investigates the theological implications of this problem, arriving at an "impersonal theocentric" approach to value in this detailed, thoughtful, and original contribution to the literature.