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Modifying Our Genes Alexander Massmann

Modifying Our Genes By Alexander Massmann

Modifying Our Genes by Alexander Massmann


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Bringing together a leading molecular biologist and a Christian ethicist, Modifying Our Genes seeks to explain relevant technical issues without the jargon, and aims to clarify the most important philosophical and religious arguments and bring empirical insights to the question of what helps us lead meaningful lives.

Modifying Our Genes Summary

Modifying Our Genes: Theology, Science and Playing God by Alexander Massmann

If our bodies could do more things, would our lives be better? Genome editing is a rapidly developing technology that can modify human genes. It can cure heritable diseases, but we could even make certain genetic improvements to healthy people. Should we change human embryos genetically to achieve such goals? Bringing together a leading molecular biologist and a Christian ethicist this book responds to the need for solid information and helpful orientation for a pressing moral issue. They explain relevant technical issues without the jargon, clarify the most important philosophical and religious arguments and bring empirical insights to the question of what helps us lead meaningful lives.

Modifying Our Genes Reviews

'This book gives us a clear account of genetic modification techniques with a special focus on genome editing; this is followed by an informative survey of potential and actual applications in human medicine. The authors make us aware of the wide-ranging social, ethical, philosophical and theological issues that arise in considering these applications and in the more general use and interpretation of knowledge of human genetics. A useful addition to the literature.' -- John Bryant, Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences, University of Exeter, UK

About Alexander Massmann

Alexander Massmann is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He received his Ph.D. for a study on 20th century theology and ethics. Having published in the subject area of this book proposal, he works in theological ethics, science and theology, and Christian doctrine. Apart from recent articles in biomedical ethics and the science and theology dialogue, he is also the author of Citizenship in Heaven and on Earth: Karl Barth's Ethics (Fortress, 2015) and editor of Deathless Hopes: Reinventions of Afterlife and Eschatological Beliefs (LIT, 2018, together with C. Hays) Keith R. Fox is Professor of biochemistry, editor of Nucleic Acids Research and has published over 200 peer-reviewed science research papers. He is also the Associate Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, Cambridge (UK), which is well-known for a strong public outreach programme. A former chairman of Christians in Science, Fox regularly addresses lay audiences on science and faith.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii 1 Introduction 1 2 How does genome editing work? 21 3 Medical opportunities: Therapeutic genome editing 39 4 Cornucopia or Pandora's box? Genetic enhancements 67 5 Eugenics 97 6 Being human in an age of biotechnology 120 Further reading 145 Index of names and subjects 147

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GOR013656513
9780334059530
0334059534
Modifying Our Genes: Theology, Science and Playing God by Alexander Massmann
Used - Very Good
Paperback
SCM Press
2021-03-31
256
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