Ethics and the new genetics : an integrated approach / edited by H. Daniel Monsour.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Monsour, H. Daniel, author.

Contributor:

• Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute.
• Scholars Portal.
• Monsour, Daniel, 1958- editor.

Series:

• Lonergan studies.
• Lonergan Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Human genetics--Moral and ethical aspects.
• Bioethics--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
• Human genetics--Research--Moral and ethical aspects.
• Human genetics--Moral and ethical aspects--Congresses.

Genre:

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 198 p.) : digital file.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Everyday, new advances are being made in the science of human genetics. Accompanying progress in this area, however, are new ethical dilemmas. At a think tank sponsored by the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute, an interdisciplinary group of ethicists, geneticists, physicians, lawyers, and theologians gathered in an attempt to apply some features of Bernard Lonergan's notion of functional specialization to ethical debates surrounding genetics.Editor H. Daniel Monsour has brought together a series of articles presented at this think tank. The articles accomplish two tasks: first, they explore some of the advances in human genetic that continue to prompt ethical debate and outline the different stances on those issues; second, they examine those stances in the context of Roman Catholic moral and religious thought. Timely, innovative, and wide-ranging, this collection will be of interest to bioethicists and philosophers, as well as religious and Lonerganian scholars.

Contents:

• ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""INTRODUCTION: Employing Functional Specialization: Overview of a Group Experiment""; ""PART ONE: SOME BIOETHICAL ISSUES IN HUMAN GENETICS: DELINEATING THE OPPOSED STANCES""; ""1 Research in Human Genetics: Technology, Information, Therapeutic Promise, and Challenge""; ""Response: Anne Summers""; ""2 Clinical Applications of Research in Human Genetics""; ""Response: Jaro Kotalik""; ""3 Genetics in Health Care""; ""4 Commercialization of Human Genetic Research""; ""Response: Peter Ibbott""
• ""PART TWO: DIFFERENTIATING THE PRE-EMPIRICAL COMPONENTS OF THE OPPOSED STANCES""""5 The Character of Moral Value, Moral Knowledge, and Moral Debate""; ""Response: Moira McQueen""; ""6 Religion as the Dynamic Horizon of Moral Discernment""; ""Response: Leo Walsh""; ""7 Discerning Catholic Positions on Particular Ethical Issues""; ""Response: Albert Moraczewski""; ""PART THREE: TOWARD DETERMINING THE NORMATIVE STANCES""; ""8 Who Owns the Human Genome?""; ""9 Genetics, Medicine, and the Human Person: The Papal Theology""; ""10 Key Issues in Genetic Research, Testing, and Patenting""
• ""11 Expanding Horizons for Moral Discernment: A Retrospective Synthesis""""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""Contributors""

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record.
• Originated as papers presented at a think tank sponsored by the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute in Guelph, Ontario in June 2002.

ISBN:

• 1-4426-3962-8
• 1-4426-8432-1

OCLC:

923083409