The two volumes of Altering Nature consider the complex ways that concepts of‘nature’ and ‘the natural’ are understood and the relevance of those understandings to discussions of biotechnology. Volume One, Concepts of ‘Nature’ and ‘The Natural’ in Biotechnology Debates, offers nuanced accounts of the ways that nature is invoked and interpreted, both descriptively and prescriptively, bydifferent disciplines, including perspectives from spirituality and religion,philosophy, science and medicine, law and economics, and aesthetics. In the context of that broad discussion. Volume Two, Religion, Biotechnology, and Public Policy, reviews recent religious and ethical analyses of four specific areas of biotechnology: assisted reproduction, genetic therapy and enhancement, human-machine incorporation, and biodiversity. INDICE: From the contents Altering Nature I: Introduction.Concepts of Nature and The Natural in Biotechnology Debates, B. Andrew Lustig and Baruch Brody. 1. Spiritual and religious concepts of nature; 2. Philosophical Approaches to Nature; 3. Scientific and Medical Concepts of Nature in the Modern Period inEurope and North America; 4. Ethical Challenges of Patenting Nature: Legal and Economic Accounts of Altered Nature as Property; 5. Aesthetic and Representational Concepts of Nature Altering Nature II: Introduction.B. Andrew Lustig, Baruch A. Brody, Gerald P. McKenny; 1: Compatible Contradictions: Religion and the Naturalization of Assisted Reproduction; 2: Religion, Conceptions of Nature, and Assisted Reproductive Technology Policy; 3: Religious Traditions and Genetic Enhancement; 4: How Bioethics Can Inform Policy Decisions About Genetic Enhancement.
- ISBN: 978-1-4020-9441-5
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Desconocida
- Páginas: 678
- Fecha Publicación: 01/12/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 2
- Idioma: Inglés