Playing God? Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
- Publish date: 02/01/2002
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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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