Genetic Futures and Our Search for Wisdom: an Inaugural Lecture Delivered at Chester College of Higher Education on 27 November 2001 - Couverture souple

Deane-Drummond, Celia

 
9781905929412: Genetic Futures and Our Search for Wisdom: an Inaugural Lecture Delivered at Chester College of Higher Education on 27 November 2001
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1905929412 ISBN 13 : 9781905929412
Editeur : Chester Academic Press, 2007

Synopsis

This inaugural lecture considers the ethical issues that arise from developments in genetic science from the perspective of Christian theology. It offers a critical response to the views of scientists who support using genetic technology to alter human genetics, arguing that the possible control of human evolution through genetics is not a matter for science alone. Instead, it takes the view that scientific developments need to be qualified by an accompanying search for wisdom, and argues that the theology of St Thomas Aquinas offers promising insights that are relevant today.

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À propos de l?auteur

Celia Deane-Drummond is Professor of Theology and the Biological Sciences and Director of the Centre for Religion and the Biosciences at the University of Chester. She initially studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, prior to doctoral study in Plant Physiology at Reading and Letcombe Research Station (University of Oxford). She then worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Vancouver and for the Biophysics Group at the University of Cambridge, followed by a spell as a lecturer at the University of Durham, before developing her interest in theology, which culminated in her second doctorate, from the University of Manchester. Her publications include Theology and Biotechnology: Implications for New Science (Cassells, 1997), Creation through Wisdom: Theology and the New Biology (T & T Clark, 2000), The Ethics of Nature (Blackwells, 2004), and Genetics and Christian Ethics (Cambridge U.P., 2006). She was editor of the journal Ecotheology from 2001 to 2006 and is currently consulting editor of its successor, The Journal for Religion, Nature and Culture.

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Éditeur
Chester Academic Press
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1905929412
ISBN 13 
9781905929412
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
20
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