Eugenic Danger or Genetic Promise: A Revolution for the Millennium

Ames summarizes his involvement in the field of biomedical ethics and the present excitement as well as anxiety about the Human Genome Project. He outlines some of the key issues as individuals consider what some ethicists perceive as eugenic dangers and also promises for genetic therapies. He belie...

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Published inCross currents (New Rochelle, N.Y.) Vol. 51; no. 3; pp. 293 - 307
Main Author AMES, DAVID A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New Rochelle, NY Association for Religion and Intellectual Life (ARIL) 22.09.2001
Association for Religion and Intellectual Life
University of North Carolina Press
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Subjects
Analysis
Anxiety
Bioethics
Biotechnology
Cell lines
Christianity
Contemporary period
Corporal life ethics
Embryonic stem cells
Embryos
Ethical aspects
Ethics
Eugenics
General subjects
Genetic engineering
Genetic research
History and sciences of religions
Human genetics
Human Genome Project
Humans
Medical genetics
Medicine
Moral theology
Neural stem cells
Religion and science
Religious aspects
Social moral
Stem cells
Theology
Therapy
United States of America
United States
Medicine
Therapy
Bioethics
Genetics
Biology
Protestant ethics
Medical ethics
Jewish ethics
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Summary:Ames summarizes his involvement in the field of biomedical ethics and the present excitement as well as anxiety about the Human Genome Project. He outlines some of the key issues as individuals consider what some ethicists perceive as eugenic dangers and also promises for genetic therapies. He believes individuals are at the dawn of a revolution in medicine and genetic therapies that will dramatically alter how they understand the meaning of health and disease.
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ISSN:0011-1953
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