Altering Nature [electronic resource] : Volume II: Religion, Biotechnology, and Public Policy / edited by B. A. Lustig, B.A. Brody, Gerald P. McKenny.

Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781402069239
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/8159
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2008.
Yayın Bilgisi
Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Fiziksel Niteleme
X, 346 p. online resource.
Dizi
Philosophy and Medicine, 2215-0080 ; 98
İçindekiler Notu
Compatible Contradictions: Religion and the Naturalization of Assisted Reproduction -- Religion, Conceptions of Nature, and Assisted Reproductive Technology Policy -- Religious Traditions and Genetic Enhancement -- How Bioethics Can Inform Policy Decisions About Genetic Enhancement -- The Machine in the Body: Ethical and Religious Issues in the Bodily Incorporation of Mechanical Devices -- Medical Devices Policy and the Humanities: Examining Implantable Cardiac Devices -- Biodiversity and Biotechnology -- Swimming Upstream: Regulating Genetically Modified Salmon.
Özet, vb.
The two volumes of Altering Nature consider the complex ways that concepts of 'nature' and 'the natural' are understood and the relevance of those understandings to discussions of biotechnology. Volume One, Concepts of 'Nature' and 'The Natural' in Biotechnology Debates, offers nuanced accounts of the ways that nature is invoked and interpreted, both descriptively and prescriptively, by different disciplines, including perspectives from spirituality and religion, philosophy, science and medicine, law and economics, and aesthetics. In the context of that broad discussion, Volume Two, Religion, Biotechnology, and Public Policy, reviews recent religious and ethical analyses of four specific areas of biotechnology: assisted reproduction, genetic therapy and enhancement, human-machine incorporation, and biodiversity. It identifies and explores the richer normative themes that inform particular debates and suggests ways that policy choices in biotechnology may be illuminated by devoting greater attention to religious perspectives.
Konu
Philosophy of nature.
Philosophy of mind.
Self.
Biology __ Philosophy.
Medicine __ Philosophy.
Science __ Philosophy.
Philosophy of Nature.
Philosophy of the Self.
Philosophy of Biology.
Philosophy of Medicine.
Philosophy of Science.