Since the original publication of Playing God?
in 1996, three developments in genetic technology have
moved to the center of the public conversation about the
ethics of human bioengineering. Cloning, the completion
of the human genome project, and, most recently, the
controversy over stem cell research have all sparked
lively debates among religious thinkers and the makers of
public policy. In this updated edition, Ted Peters
illuminates the key issues in these debates and continues
to make deft connections between our questions about God
and our efforts to manage technological innovations with
wisdom.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preface
1. Playing God with DNA
2. Puppet Determinism and Promethean Determinism
3. The
Crime Gene, Stigma, and Original Sin
4. The So-Called
"Gay Gene" and Scientized Morality
5. Should We
Patent God's Creation?
6. The Question of Germline
Intervention
7. The Cloning Controversy
8. The Stem Cell
Controversy
9. A Theology of Freedom
Appendix A: CTNS
Statement On The Gay Gene Discovery
Appendix B: Playing
God With David Heyd
