Playing God?
Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate
312 pages, 1 line drawing, 10 tables 6 x 9
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2001
Series: Morality and Society Series
Cloth $70.00
ISBN: 9780226222615
Published January 2002
Paper $25.00
ISBN: 9780226222622
Published February 2002
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Framework for Understanding the Thinning of a Public Debate 2. Setting the Stage: The Eugenicists and the Challenge from Theologians 3. Gene Therapy, Advisory Commissions, and the Birth of the Bioethics Profession 4. The President's Commission: The "Neutral" Triumph of Formal Rationality 5. Regaining Lost Jurisdictional Ground and the Triumph of the Bioethics Profession 6. "Reproduction" as the New Jurisdictional Metaphor: Autonomy and the Internal Threat to the Bioethics/Science Jurisdiction 7. Conclusion: The Future of Public Bioethics and the HGE Debate Appendix: Methods and Tables Notes Works Cited Index
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