TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lustig,B.Andrew
AU  - Brody,Baruch A.
AU  - McKenny,Gerald P.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Altering Nature: Volume Two: Religion, Biotechnology, and Public Policy 
T2  - Philosophy and Medicine,
SN  - 9781402069239
AV  - BD581 
U1  - 113 23
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Philosophy and science
KW  - Biology
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Philosophy of nature
KW  - Philosophy of Nature
KW  - Philosophy of Man
KW  - Philosophy of Biology
KW  - Philosophy of Medicine
KW  - Philosophy of Science
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Compatible Contradictions: Religion and the Naturalization of Assisted Reproduction -- Religion, Conceptions of Nature, and Assisted Reproductive Technology Policy -- Religious Traditions and Genetic Enhancement -- How Bioethics Can Inform Policy Decisions About Genetic Enhancement -- The Machine in the Body: Ethical and Religious Issues in the Bodily Incorporation of Mechanical Devices -- Medical Devices Policy and the Humanities: Examining Implantable Cardiac Devices -- Biodiversity and Biotechnology -- Swimming Upstream: Regulating Genetically Modified Salmon
N2  - 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, by different 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. It identifies and explores the richer normative themes that inform particular debates and suggests ways that policy choices in biotechnology may be illuminated by devoting greater attention to religious perspectives
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