Eugenic Danger or Genetic Promise: A Revolution for the Millennium

• Published in: Cross currents (New Rochelle, N.Y.) Vol. 51; no. 3; pp. 293 - 307
• Main Author: AMES, DAVID A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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
• ISSN: 0011-1953; 1939-3881

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...