Biotechnology and the Human Good by Mitchell, C. Ben
Biotechnology and the Human Good by Mitchell, C. Ben

Biotechnology and the Human Good

In the past several decades biotechnologies have provided patients with a multitude of means to address illness...
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Author: C. Ben Mitchell
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Biotechnology and the Human Good by Mitchell, C. Ben

Biotechnology and the Human Good

$660.15
Biotechnology and the Human Good by Mitchell, C. Ben

Biotechnology and the Human Good

$660.15
Author: C. Ben Mitchell
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
In the past several decades biotechnologies have provided patients with a multitude of means to address illness and disability. Some biotechnologies, such as reproductive technologies and genetic enhancements, have created significant questions about the appropriateness of medical progress, and carry ethical and social implications for society. Should biotechnology move full steam ahead? Or should we show some degree of restraint? Amid the clamoring of conflicting claims is a profound absence of the answer to a fundamental question: the ultimate goal of biotechnology. What guidelines are available? How should we assess advances in clinical medicine? For those with Christian commitments, how does one reconcile such concepts as human dignity with biotechnical progress? Is the manipulation of embryos, for instance, really progress?This book, an interdisciplinary effort by several scholars writing with one voice, a voice deeply influenced by Christian theology, reviews recent developments in genetics, nanontechnology, cybernetics, neuroscience and pharmacology that not only may lead to new tools for healing, but that can also be used to enhance or augment normal human function. The authors also look at how competing worldviews--philosophical and religious--assess such developments. After laying out a Christian anthropology, or understanding of human nature, they conclude with a discussion of the proper use of biotechnology to pursue human flourishing. While fully supportive of medical progress to combat disease, which might include research on human subjects, they are suspicious of medical attempts to "improve" human nature.

Author: C. Ben Mitchell, Edmund D. Pellegrino, Jean Bethke Elshtain
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 04/23/2007
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.46h x 7.12w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781589011380


Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 12/01/2007 pg. 164

About the Author

C. Ben Mitchell is associate professor of bioethics and contemporary culture at Trinity International University.

Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD, is the chair of the President's Council on Bioethics, and professor emeritus of medicine and medical ethics, Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University Medical Center.

Jean Bethke Elshtain is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago.

John F. Kilner is the Franklin Forman Chair of Ethics, professor of bioethics and contemporary culture, and the director of the bioethics program at Trinity International University.

Scott B. Rae is professor of biblical studies and Christian ethics at Biola University.




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