Altering Nature: Volume Two: Religion, Biotechnology, and Public Policy

349 Pages·2008·1.52 MB·English

by  B. Andrew Lustig

Altering Nature
Philosophy and Medicine
VOLUME 98
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B. Andrew Lustig • Baruch A. Brody
Gerald P. McKenny
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Altering Nature
Volume Two: Religion, Biotechnology,
and Public Policy
Editors:
B. Andrew Lustig Baruch A. Brody
Davidson College Baylor College of Medicine
Gerald P. McKenny
University of Notre Dame
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Contents
Contributors ................................................................................................... vii
Introduction .................................................................................................... 1
B. Andrew Lustig, Baruch A. Brody, and Gerald P. McKenny
1 Compatible Contradictions: Religion and the
Naturalization of Assisted Reproduction ............................................... 15
Cristina Traina, Eugenia Georges, Marcia Inhorn,
Susan Kahn, and Maura A. Ryan
2 Religion, Conceptions of Nature, and Assisted
Reproductive Technology Policy ............................................................. 87
John H. Evans
3 Religious Traditions and Genetic Enhancement ................................... 109
Ted Peters, Estuardo Aguilar-Cordova, Cromwell Crawford,
and Karen Lebacqz
4 How Bioethics Can Inform Policy Decisions
About Genetic Enhancement .................................................................. 161
Robert Cook-Deegan, Kathleen N. Lohr, and Julie Gage Palmer
5 The Machine in the Body: Ethical and Religious
Issues in the Bodily Incorporation of Mechanical Devices ................... 199
Courtney S. Campbell, James F. Keenan, David R. Loy,
Kathleen Matthews, Terry Winograd, and Laurie Zoloth
6 Medical Devices Policy and the Humanities:
Examining Implantable Cardiac Devices .............................................. 259
Jeremy Sugarman, Courtney S. Campbell, Paul Citron,
Susan Bartlett Foote, and Nancy M. P. King
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7 Biodiversity and Biotechnology .............................................................. 285
Nicholas Agar, David M. Lodge, Gerald P. McKenny,
and LaReesa Wolfenbarger
8 Swimming Upstream: Regulating Genetically
Modifi ed Salmon ...................................................................................... 321
Paul A. Lombardo and Ann Bostrom
Index ................................................................................................................ 337
Contributors
Nicholas Agar, Ph.D., is a Reader in the School of History, Philosophy, Political
Science and International Relations at Victoria University in Wellington, New
Zealand.
Estuardo Aguilar-Cordova, M.D., Ph.D., is Founder and CEO of Advantagene, Inc.
Ann Bostrom, Ph.D., MBA, is Associate Dean of Research and Associate Professor
in the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington,
Seattle.
Baruch A. Brody, Ph.D., is Leon Jaworski Professor of Biomedical Ethics and
Director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of
Medicine. He is also the Andrew Mellow Professor of Humanities in the Department
of Philosophy at Rice University.
Courtney S. Campbell, Ph.D., is a Professor of Philosophy and the Director of the
Program for Ethics, Science, and the Environment at Oregon State University.
Paul Citron, MSEE, retired from Medtronic. Inc., a medical device company, after
32 years in senior R&D positions. He is currently on the faculty in the Department
of Bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego.
Robert Cook-Deegan, M.D., directs the Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy,
Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy at Duke University.
Cromwell Crawford, D.Lit., Ph.D., is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of
Religion at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
John H. Evans, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology,
University of California, San Diego.
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Susan Bartlett Foote, JD, is a Professor in the Division of Health Policy and
Management at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.
Eugenia Georges, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology,
Rice University.
Marcia Inhorn, Ph.D., MPH, is a Professor at the University of Michigan, with joint
appointments in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education (School
of Public Health), the Department of Anthropology, Program in Women’s Studies,
and Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies.
Susan Kahn, Ph.D., is a Lecturer on Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at
Harvard University and Associate Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
at Harvard University.
James F. Keenan, S.J., STL, STD, is a Professor in the Department of Theology at
Boston College.
Nancy M. P. King, JD, is a Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and
Health Policy and Director of the Program in Bioethics, Health, and Society at
Wake Forest University.
Karen Lebacqz, Ph.D., is Robert Gordon Sproul Professor of Theological Ethics,
Emerita, at Pacific School of Religion in the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley,
California.
David M. Lodge, D.Phil., is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and
Director of the Center for Aquatic Conservation at the University of Notre Dame.
Kathleen N. Lohr, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Fellow (Health Services Research) in
Social and Statistical Sciences at RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina.
Paul A. Lombardo, Ph.D., JD, is a Professor of Law at Georgia State University’s
College of Law.
David R. Loy, Ph.D., is the Besl Family Chair of Ethics/Religion and Society at
Xavier University.
B. Andrew Lustig, Ph.D., is the Holmes Rolston III Professor of Religion and
Science at Davidson College.
Kathleen Matthews, Ph.D., is Dean of the Wiess School of Natural Sciences and the
Stewart Memorial Professor in the Department of Biochemistry & Cell Biology at
Rice University.
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Gerald P. McKenny, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theology
at the University of Notre Dame.
Julie Gage Palmer, JD, is Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago School of
Law.
Ted Peters, Ph.D., is a Professor of Systematic Theology at Pacific Lutheran
Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in Berkeley,
California.
Maura A. Ryan, Ph.D., is John Cardinal O’Hara, C.S.C. Associate Professor of
Theology at the University of Notre Dame.
Jeremy Sugarman, M.D., MPH, MA, is the Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of
Bioethics and Medicine in the Berman Institute of Bioethics and Department of
Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.
Cristina Traina, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at
Northwestern University.
Terry Winograd, Ph.D., is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University.
LaReesa Wolfenbarger, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Biology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Laurie Zoloth, Ph.D., is a Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities at the
Feinberg School of Medicine and a Professor of Religion at the Weinberg College
of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University.