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FitzGerald, Kevin Timothy.

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Ethical analysis of human genetic interventions: A response from Karl Rahner to the need for integrating philosophical anthropologies and current scientific knowledge.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ethical analysis of human genetic interventions: A response from Karl Rahner to the need for integrating philosophical anthropologies and current scientific knowledge./
Author:	FitzGerald, Kevin Timothy.
Description:	245 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-12, Section: A, page: 4804.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International61-12A.
Subject:	Biology, Genetics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9999331
ISBN:	9780493074047

Ethical analysis of human genetic interventions: A response from Karl Rahner to the need for integrating philosophical anthropologies and current scientific knowledge.
FitzGerald, Kevin Timothy.

Ethical analysis of human genetic interventions: A response from Karl Rahner to the need for integrating philosophical anthropologies and current scientific knowledge. - 245 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-12, Section: A, page: 4804.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgetown University, 2000.

Genetic technology offers an opportunity to modify human genes in order to combat genetic disease. However, if it is possible to alter the human genome in an attempt to improve health, it will also be possible to alter the human genome in an attempt to effect a fundamental change in human nature. These possibilities raise obvious and profound ethical questions.

ISBN: 9780493074047Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017730
Biology, Genetics.

Ethical analysis of human genetic interventions: A response from Karl Rahner to the need for integrating philosophical anthropologies and current scientific knowledge.
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520 $a Genetic technology offers an opportunity to modify human genes in order to combat genetic disease. However, if it is possible to alter the human genome in an attempt to improve health, it will also be possible to alter the human genome in an attempt to effect a fundamental change in human nature. These possibilities raise obvious and profound ethical questions.
520 $a These ethical questions raise the further issue of what it means to be a human being. Hence, an analysis of the ethical concerns raised by human genetic interventions should include a thorough investigation of the philosophical anthropologies employed, implicitly or explicitly, by those addressing these ethical questions. A review of six different authors who have figured prominently in the ethical discussions about human genetic interventions during the past several decades reveals inadequacies in their respective philosophical anthropologies and consequent ethical decision-making processes. Principally, they are deficient in their integration of new genetic information with the various ways of knowing and understanding human nature.
520 $a As a corrective to this deficiency, I propose the philosophical anthropology and ethical decision-making process of Karl Rahner. In order to make his approach accessible to people from different traditions and fields of inquiry, Rahner explicated structures common to all human experience in both understanding and decision-making.
520 $a Using these common structures, Rahner proposed an existential ethic wherein the reality and value of common human experiences is balanced with the need often to go beyond what can be deduced from such common knowledge in order to address individual freedom and self-determination. This balancing is accomplished by employing a discernment process which can be applied to all levels of social organization.
520 $a The advantages of a Rahnerian approach are highlighted by comparing his methods to the six authors reviewed earlier. In addition, Rahner's approach is used to suggest ways to improve the federal gene therapy oversight procedures employed up to the present. These comparisons make it clear that the most significant advantage of Rahner's philosophical anthropology and ethical decision-making process is his emphasis on integrating a diverse body of information and knowledge (e.g. scientific and religious, personal and social) concerning human genetic interventions for each individual case as well as for more general proposals. It is this advantage that, though not necessarily unique to a Rahnerian approach, is crucial for individuals and society in order that they might make wise decisions with respect to the use of human genetic interventions.
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