Ethics & Biotechnology

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 8
Notes on contributors......Page 9
Introduction......Page 12
MODERN ERRORS, ANCIENT VIRTUES......Page 24
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND AGRICULTURE......Page 44
GENETIC ENGINEERING AND THE NORTH-SOUTH DIVIDE......Page 58
THE FRUITS OF BODY-BUILDERS\' LABOUR......Page 75
THE MORAL STATUS OF EXTRACORPOREAL EMBRYOS Pre-born children, property or something else?......Page 90
IVF AND MANIPULATING THE HUMAN EMBRYO......Page 104
MANIPULATION OF THE GERM-LINE Towards elimination of major infectious diseases?......Page 132
HOW TO ASSESS THE CONSEQUENCES OF GENETIC ENGINEERING?......Page 155
WHO OWNS MO? Using historical entitlement theory to decide the ownership of human derived cell lines......Page 168
WHAT \'BUGS\' GENETIC ENGINEERS ABOUT BIOETHICS The consequences of genetic engineering as post-modern technology......Page 190
CATEGORICAL OBJECTIONS TO GENETIC ENGINEERING;A CRITIQUE......Page 213
BIOTECHNOLOGY, FRIEND OR FOE? ETHICS AND CONTROLS......Page 227
GENETIC ENGINEERING AND ETHICS IN GERMANY......Page 241
GENETIC ENGINEERING IN THEOLOGY AND THEOLOGICAL ETHICS......Page 270
Index......Page 283