Faith meets the Human Genome Project: Religious factors in the public response to genetics

Public Understanding of Science

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 207-214

  Cole Turner, Ronald ^a  

^a AAAS   (United States)

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EID: 0042283151     PISSN: 09636625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0963-6625/8/3/305     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. cf. R. L. Shinn, "Genetics, Ethics, and Theology: The Ecumenical Discussion," and T. A. Shannon, "Genetics, Ethics, and Theology: The Roman Catholic Discussion," both in Genetics: Issues of Social Justice ed. T. Peters (Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 1998), pp. 122-143 and 144-179; R. Cole-Turner, "Genes, Religion and Society: The Developing Views of the Churches," Science and Engineering Ethics 3 (1997): 273-288.
2. cf. R. L. Shinn, "Genetics, Ethics, and Theology: The Ecumenical Discussion," and T. A. Shannon, "Genetics, Ethics, and Theology: The Roman Catholic Discussion," both in Genetics: Issues of Social Justice ed. T. Peters (Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 1998), pp. 122-143 and 144-179; R. Cole-Turner, "Genes, Religion and Society: The Developing Views of the Churches," Science and Engineering Ethics 3 (1997): 273-288.
3. cf. R. L. Shinn, "Genetics, Ethics, and Theology: The Ecumenical Discussion," and T. A. Shannon, "Genetics, Ethics, and Theology: The Roman Catholic Discussion," both in Genetics: Issues of Social Justice ed. T. Peters (Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 1998), pp. 122-143 and 144-179; R. Cole-Turner, "Genes, Religion and Society: The Developing Views of the Churches," Science and Engineering Ethics 3 (1997): 273-288.
4. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has published Genetic Testing and Screening: Critical Engagement at the Intersection of Faith and Science, ed. R. A. Willer (Minneapolis, MN: Kirk House Publishers, 1998); The Committee on Medical Ethics of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, D. C. has published Wrestling with the Future: Our Genes and Our Choices (Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing Co., 1998); The United Church of Christ Resource, edited by R. Cole-Turner, will be available in late 1999.
5. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has published Genetic Testing and Screening: Critical Engagement at the Intersection of Faith and Science, ed. R. A. Willer (Minneapolis, MN: Kirk House Publishers, 1998); The Committee on Medical Ethics of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, D. C. has published Wrestling with the Future: Our Genes and Our Choices (Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing Co., 1998); The United Church of Christ Resource, edited by R. Cole-Turner, will be available in late 1999.
6. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has published Genetic Testing and Screening: Critical Engagement at the Intersection of Faith and Science, ed. R. A. Willer (Minneapolis, MN: Kirk House Publishers, 1998); The Committee on Medical Ethics of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, D. C. has published Wrestling with the Future: Our Genes and Our Choices (Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing Co., 1998); The United Church of Christ Resource, edited by R. Cole-Turner, will be available in late 1999.
7. cf. R. Cole-Turner (ed.), Human Cloning: Religious Responses (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1997).
8. National Society of Genetic Counselors 1992, p. 42.
9. Committee on Assessing Genetic Risks 1994, p. 16; original in bold type.
10. "Principles," in Genetic Counseling Principles in Action: A Casebook, ed. J. H. Marks, A. Heimler, E. Reich, N. S. Wexler, and S. E. Ince (White Plains, NY: March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, 1989), pp. 138, 140.
11. R. Cole-Turner and B. Waters, Pastoral Genetics: Theology and Care at the Beginning of Life (Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 1996), pp. 31-46.
12. Wrestling with the Future, p. 100.
13. Wrestling with the Future, p. 100.
14. A. Peacocke, Theology for a Scientific Age: Being and Becoming - Natural, Divine and Human (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1993), p. 126.
15. Pastoral Genetics, pp. 141-142.
16. B. K. Rothman, quoted in E. Kristol, "Picture Perfect: The Politics of Prenatal Testing," First Things 32 (April 1993): 17.
17. Pastoral Genetics, p. 140.
18. T. Peters, "Love and Dignity: Against Children Becoming Commodities", in Genetic Testing and Screening, p. 117.
19. B. K. Rothman, "Not All That Glitters Is Gold," Hastings Center Report (special supplement July-August, 1992): S13.
20. Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, "Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation", Origins 16 (1987): 702.
21. H. Bouma III, D. Diekema, E. Langerak, T. Rottman, and A. Verhey, Christian Faith, Health, and Medical Practice (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1989), p. 248.
22. Wrestling with the Future, p. 98.