The development of biotechnology has produced nothing short of a revolution, both in our capacity to manipulate living things from single plant cells to human nature itself, but also to manufacture brand new life forms. This power to shape and create forms of life has sometimes been described as the power to "play God" and this book is about the ethics of "playing God" in the field of biotechnology. International scholars cover moral dilemmas posed by biotechnology, from the smallest cells through animals to the engineering of human beings.
Chapter 1 Modern Errors, Ancient Virtues, Stephen R.L. Clark;
Chapter 2
Biotechnology and Agriculture, David Colman;
Chapter 3 Genetic Engineering
and the North-South Divide, Sųren Holm;
Chapter 4 The Fruits of
Body-Builders Labour, Hillel Steiner;
Chapter 5 The Moral Status of
Extracorporeal Embryos, Bonnie Steinbock;
Chapter 6 IVF and Manipulating the
Human Embryo, Susan Kimber;
Chapter 7 Manipulation of the Germ-Line, Janice
Wood-Harper;
Chapter 8 How to Assess the Consequences of Genetic
Engineering?, Heta Häyry;
Chapter 9 Who Owns MO?, Charles A. Erin;
Chapter 10
What Bugs Genetic Engineers about Bioethics, Peter R. Wheale, Ruth M.
McNally;
Chapter 11 Categorical Objections to Genetic Engineering A
Critique, Matti Häyry;
Chapter 12 Biotechnology, Friend or FOE? Ethics and
Controls, John Harris;
Chapter 13 Genetic Engineering and Ethics in Germany,
Ulla Wessels;
Chapter 14 Genetic Engineering in Theology and Theological
Ethics, Anthony Dyson;
Anthony Dyson
