The development of biotechnology has produced nothing short of a revolution, both in our capacity to manipulate living things from single plant cells to human nature itself, but also to manufacture brand new life forms. This power to shape and create forms of life has sometimes been described as the power to ''play God'' and this book is about the ethics of ''playing God'' in the field of biotechnology. International scholars cover moral dilemmas posed by biotechnology, from the smallest cells through animals to the engineering of human beings.
Author(s): Anthony Dyson, John Harris
Series: Social Ethics and Policy
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1994
Language: English
Pages: 288
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 8
Notes on contributors......Page 9
Introduction......Page 12
MODERN ERRORS, ANCIENT VIRTUES......Page 24
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND AGRICULTURE......Page 44
GENETIC ENGINEERING AND THE NORTH-SOUTH DIVIDE......Page 58
THE FRUITS OF BODY-BUILDERS' LABOUR......Page 75
THE MORAL STATUS OF EXTRACORPOREAL EMBRYOS Pre-born children, property or something else?......Page 90
IVF AND MANIPULATING THE HUMAN EMBRYO......Page 104
MANIPULATION OF THE GERM-LINE Towards elimination of major infectious diseases?......Page 132
HOW TO ASSESS THE CONSEQUENCES OF GENETIC ENGINEERING?......Page 155
WHO OWNS MO? Using historical entitlement theory to decide the ownership of human derived cell lines......Page 168
WHAT 'BUGS' GENETIC ENGINEERS ABOUT BIOETHICS The consequences of genetic engineering as post-modern technology......Page 190
CATEGORICAL OBJECTIONS TO GENETIC ENGINEERING;A CRITIQUE......Page 213
BIOTECHNOLOGY, FRIEND OR FOE? ETHICS AND CONTROLS......Page 227
GENETIC ENGINEERING AND ETHICS IN GERMANY......Page 241
GENETIC ENGINEERING IN THEOLOGY AND THEOLOGICAL ETHICS......Page 270
Index......Page 283
