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Altering Nature (eBook)

Volume II: Religion, Biotechnology, and Public Policy
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2008 | 2008
X, 346 Seiten
Springer Netherland (Verlag)
978-1-4020-6923-9 (ISBN)

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B. Andrew Lustig, Baruch A. Brody, and Gerald P. McKenny In this second volume of the 'Altering Nature' project, we situate specific religious and policy discussions of four broad areas of biotechnology within the context of our interdisciplinary research on concepts of nature and the natural in the first volume (Altering Nature, Concepts of Nature and the Natural in Biotechnology Debates). In the first volume, we invited five groups of scholars to explore the diverse conc- tions of nature and the natural that shape moral judgments about human alterations of nature, as especially exemplified by recent developments in biotechnology. A careful reading of such developments reveals that assessments of them-whether positive or negative-are often informed by different conceptual interpretations of nature and the natural, with differing implications for judgments about the app- priateness of particular alterations of nature. These varying interpretations of nature and the natural often result from the distinctive perspectives that characterize va- ous scholarly disciplines. Therefore, in an effort to explore the variety of meanings that attend discussions of the concepts of nature and the natural, the contributors to the first volume of Altering Nature addressed those concepts from five different disciplinary vantages. A first group of scholars analyzed a range of religious and spiritual perspectives on concepts of nature and the natural. Their research highlighted the thematic, h- torical, and methodological touchstones in those traditions that shape their persp- tives on nature.
B. Andrew Lustig, Baruch A. Brody, and Gerald P. McKenny In this second volume of the "e;Altering Nature"e; project, we situate specific religious and policy discussions of four broad areas of biotechnology within the context of our interdisciplinary research on concepts of nature and the natural in the first volume (Altering Nature, Concepts of Nature and the Natural in Biotechnology Debates). In the first volume, we invited five groups of scholars to explore the diverse conc- tions of nature and the natural that shape moral judgments about human alterations of nature, as especially exemplified by recent developments in biotechnology. A careful reading of such developments reveals that assessments of them-whether positive or negative-are often informed by different conceptual interpretations of nature and the natural, with differing implications for judgments about the app- priateness of particular alterations of nature. These varying interpretations of nature and the natural often result from the distinctive perspectives that characterize va- ous scholarly disciplines. Therefore, in an effort to explore the variety of meanings that attend discussions of the concepts of nature and the natural, the contributors to the first volume of Altering Nature addressed those concepts from five different disciplinary vantages. A first group of scholars analyzed a range of religious and spiritual perspectives on concepts of nature and the natural. Their research highlighted the thematic, h- torical, and methodological touchstones in those traditions that shape their persp- tives on nature.

Introduction B. Andrew Lustig, Baruch A. Brody, Gerald P. McKenny 1: 'Compatible Contradictions: Religion and the Naturalization of Assisted Reproduction,' by Cristina Traina, Eugenia Georges, Marcia Inhorn, Susan Kahn, and Maura Ryan 2: 'Religion, Conceptions of Nature, and Assisted Reproductive Technology Policy,' by John H. Evans 3: 'Religious Traditions and Genetic Enhancement,' by Estuardo Aguilar, Cromwell Crawford, Karen Lebacqz, and Ted Peters 4: 'How Bioethics Can Inform Policy Decisions About Genetic Enhancement,' by Robert Cook-Deegan, Kathleen N. Lohr, and Julie Gage Palmer 5: 'The Machine in the Body: Ethical and Religious Issues in the Bodily Incorporation of Mechanical Devices,' by Courtney S. Campbell, James F. Keenan, David Loy, Kathleen Matthews, Terry Winograd, and Laurie Zoloth 6: 'Altering Nature: Medical Devices Policy and the Humanities: Examining Implantable Cardiac Devices,' by Jeremy Sugarman, Courtney Campbell, Paul Citron, Susan Bartlett Foote, and Nancy M. P. King 7: 'Biodiversity and Biotechnology,' by Nicholas Agar, David M. Lodge, Gerald McKenny, and LaReesa Wolfenbarger 8: 'Swimming Upstream: Regulating Genetically Modified Salmon,' by Paul A. Lombardo and Ann Bostrom Notes on Contributors Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.11.2008
Reihe/Serie Philosophy and Medicine
Philosophy and Medicine
Zusatzinfo X, 346 p.
Verlagsort Dordrecht
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Allgemeines / Lexika
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Medizinethik
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Technik Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
Schlagworte altering nature • Bioethics • Biotechnology • concepts of the "natural" • ethics • Morality • Public Policy • Religion
ISBN-10 1-4020-6923-5 / 1402069235
ISBN-13 978-1-4020-6923-9 / 9781402069239
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