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      GenEthics and religion / volume editors, G. Pfleiderer, G. Brahier, K. Lindpaintner.

      p. ; cm.

      Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

      ISBN 978-3-8055-8973-4 (hard cover: alk. paper)

      1. Genetic engineering––Religious aspects––Congresses. I. Pfleiderer, Georg. II. Brahier, G. (Gabriela) III. Lindpaintner, K. (Klaus)

      [DNLM: 1. Genetics––ethics––Congresses. 2. Bioethical Issues––Congresses. 3. Religion and Medicine––Congresses. QU 450 G3272 2010]

      QH438.7.G4116 2010

      205'.64957––dc22

      2010014350

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      Contents

Introduction

Beyond Playing God: Critical Religious GenEthics for Pluralistic Societies

      Pfleiderer, G.; Brahier, G. (Basel); Lindpaintner, K. (Newark, Del.)

Foundations: Hermeneutic and Conceptional Reflections

Genes – Cells – Interpretations: What Hermeneutics Can Add to Genetics and to Bioethics

      Rehmann-Sutter, C. (Lübeck)

       Controversies about Human Dignity: Implications for Biotechnology

      Childress, J.F. (Charlottesville, Va.)

       The Function of Religion in GenEthical Debates: Critical Analyses

       Global Bioethics, Theology, and Human Genetic Engineering: The Challenge of Refashioning Human Nature in the Face of Moral and Religious Pluralism

      Engelhardt, Jr., H.T. (Houston, Tex.)

       Eschewing Images of Man: Against Anthropological Reductionism in Bioethics

      Graf, F.W. (Munich)

       Children, Bodies, Life: Ethics as the Churches’ Biopolitics

      Gehring, P. (Darmstadt)

       On the Ethics Debate between Theologians, Scientists and Doctors: Experiences, Observations and Commentaries of a Medical Geneticist

      Müller, H. (Basel)

       Examining Constructive Efforts of Religious GenEthics (I): Christian Theological GenEthics

       ‘Biopower’ – Ethical and Theological Considerations

      Mieth, D. (Erfurt)

       First Sheep, Then Human Beings? Theological and Ethical Reflections on the Use of Gene Technology

      Schockenhoff, E. (Freiburg)

       Is the Human Genome Sacred?

      Peters, T. (Berkeley, Calif.)

       Examining Constructive Efforts of Religious GenEthics (II): Jewish, Islamic, and Buddhist GenEthics

       The Jewish Perspective on GenEthics

      Green, R.M. (Hanover, N.H.)

       Human Genetic Technologies and Islamic Bioethics

      Nor, S.N.M. (Kuala Lumpur)

       Buddhism and Human Genome Research

      Ratanakul, P. (Nakornpathom)

       Author Index

       Subject Index

Introduction

      Pfleiderer G, Brahier G, Lindpaintner K (eds): GenEthics and Religion. Basel, Karger, 2010, pp 1–11

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Beyond Playing God: Critical Religious GenEthics for Pluralistic Societies

Georg Pfleiderer^a · Gabriela Brahier^a