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- catalog abstract "The Human Genome Project, an international scientific enterprise aimed at attaining a complete sequence and locator map of the entire human genetic structure by the year 2005, constitutes the largest single project ever undertaken in the life sciences. When completed, it will help pinpoint the genetic basis of virtually any human trait. It will also offer the possibility for medical interventions for many diseases and abnormalities related to genetic processes. In this timely collection, scholars from the fields of philosophy, history, ethics, theology, and the natural sciences explore the complex, far-reaching issues surrounding the Human Genome Project.".
- catalog contributor b11593725.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-511) and index.".
- catalog description "Introductory essay. Completing the tree of Descartes / Phillip R. Sloan -- pt. 1. Origins of the Genome Project: introductory comments. The Manhattan Project for biomedicine / Timothy Lenoir and Marguerite Hays. Whose work shall we trust? Genetics, pediatrics, and hereditary diseases in postwar France / Jean-Paul Gaudillière. Commentary / Robert A. Bud. A book of life? How a genetic code became a language / Lily E. Kay. Commentary / Hans-Jörg Rheinberger. Origins of the U.S. Human Genome Project: the changing relationships between genetics and national security / John Beatty. Metaphors of morality in the Human Genome Project / Alice Domurat Dreger -- pt. 2. The Genome Project and eugenics: introductory comments. Defining the defective: eugenics, esthetics, and mass culture in early twentieth-century America / Martin S. Pernick. What's morally wrong with eugenics? / Arthur L. Caplan. Commentary / Timothy Murphy. Utopian eugenics and social inequality / Philip Kitcher. Commentary / Diane R. Paul -- pt. 3. Is a strong genetic reductionist program possible?: introductory comments. Is there an organism in this text? / Evelyn Fox Keller. Commentary / Jean Gayon. Reductionism and determinism in human genetics: lessons from simple organisms / Kenneth F. Schaffner. Commentary / Edward Manier -- pt. 4. Reductionism, determinism and theological humanism: introductory comments. Relating genetics to theology on the map of scientific knowledge / Arthur R. Peacocke. Biology and the theology of the human / Ernan McMullin. Philosophical anthropologies and the Human Genome Project / Kevin T. FitzGerald. Commentary / John M. Staudenmaier -- Afterword. The geneticization of western civilization: blessing or bane? / John M. Opitz.".
- catalog description "The Human Genome Project, an international scientific enterprise aimed at attaining a complete sequence and locator map of the entire human genetic structure by the year 2005, constitutes the largest single project ever undertaken in the life sciences. When completed, it will help pinpoint the genetic basis of virtually any human trait. It will also offer the possibility for medical interventions for many diseases and abnormalities related to genetic processes. In this timely collection, scholars from the fields of philosophy, history, ethics, theology, and the natural sciences explore the complex, far-reaching issues surrounding the Human Genome Project.".
- catalog extent "xxx, 535 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0268008183 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0268008205 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in science and the humanities from the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values ; v. 5".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Notre Dame, IN. : University of Notre Dame Press,".
- catalog subject "2000 E-133".
- catalog subject "573.2/1 20".
- catalog subject "Ethics, Medical Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Eugenics Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Genetic Engineering Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Genome, Human Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Human Genome Project.".
- catalog subject "Human gene mapping Moral and ethical aspects.".
- catalog subject "Human genetics History.".
- catalog subject "Human genetics Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "QH 447 C764 2000".
- catalog subject "QH445.2 .C65 1999".
- catalog subject "Religion and Medicine Congresses.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introductory essay. Completing the tree of Descartes / Phillip R. Sloan -- pt. 1. Origins of the Genome Project: introductory comments. The Manhattan Project for biomedicine / Timothy Lenoir and Marguerite Hays. Whose work shall we trust? Genetics, pediatrics, and hereditary diseases in postwar France / Jean-Paul Gaudillière. Commentary / Robert A. Bud. A book of life? How a genetic code became a language / Lily E. Kay. Commentary / Hans-Jörg Rheinberger. Origins of the U.S. Human Genome Project: the changing relationships between genetics and national security / John Beatty. Metaphors of morality in the Human Genome Project / Alice Domurat Dreger -- pt. 2. The Genome Project and eugenics: introductory comments. Defining the defective: eugenics, esthetics, and mass culture in early twentieth-century America / Martin S. Pernick. What's morally wrong with eugenics? / Arthur L. Caplan. Commentary / Timothy Murphy. Utopian eugenics and social inequality / Philip Kitcher. Commentary / Diane R. Paul -- pt. 3. Is a strong genetic reductionist program possible?: introductory comments. Is there an organism in this text? / Evelyn Fox Keller. Commentary / Jean Gayon. Reductionism and determinism in human genetics: lessons from simple organisms / Kenneth F. Schaffner. Commentary / Edward Manier -- pt. 4. Reductionism, determinism and theological humanism: introductory comments. Relating genetics to theology on the map of scientific knowledge / Arthur R. Peacocke. Biology and the theology of the human / Ernan McMullin. Philosophical anthropologies and the Human Genome Project / Kevin T. FitzGerald. Commentary / John M. Staudenmaier -- Afterword. The geneticization of western civilization: blessing or bane? / John M. Opitz.".
- catalog title "Controlling our destinies : historical, philosophical, ethical, and theological perspectives on the Human Genome Project / edited by Phillip R. Sloan.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".