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Adam, Eve, and the genome : the Human Genome Project and theology / edited by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite.

Contributor(s): Thistlethwaite, Susan Brooks, 1948-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Theology and the sciences: Publisher: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 2003Description: xvi, 200 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0800636147 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Genetic engineering -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects | Human gene mapping | Liberation theology | Feminist theologyDDC classification: 201/.666065 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-187) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: liberation theology in dialogue with the Human Genome Project / Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite -- Science of Genetic: Setting the context: a brief history of science by a sympathetic theologian: Aristotle and Plato, Islamic science, medieval science and the west, Reformation and the Renaissance, Descartes, Newton, Darwin, Freud / Laurel Schneider -- An introduction to Medelian genetics: Gregor Mendel and peas, DNA, Autosomal recessive conditions, autosomal dominant conditions, X-Linked conditions / Lainie Friedman Ross -- From peapods to the Human Genome Project: post-Mendelian genetics: Chromosomal variations, clinical genetics, ethical and policy issues / Lainie Friedman Ross -- Being human: Theological anthropology and the Human Genome Project: theology and science, bringing theology to the HGP, redemption and resurrection, Imago Dei, reflection on Romans / Theodore W. Jennings Jr. -- Adam, Eve, and the genome: genome as text, quest for a "gay gene" as "etiological text", story of Adam and Eve as "etiological text", who asks etiological questions? / Ken Stone -- Critical issues: Dreaming the soul: African American skepticism encounters the HGP: racism in American history as a feature of the American dream, a way out of the nightmare, a different dream of being human, dreaming of freedom, the new dream, on being human / Lee H. Butler, Jr. -- A gene of violence? determinism and sin: a short history of the doctrine of sin, genetic determinism, flies who rape?, flawed science, human freedom and genetics, human dignity in the image of God, social sin and human violence, to sin rationally / Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite -- The chemistry of community: the "case" of hypertension in African Americans, the "case" of breast cancer, grace, soul body dualism, the grace of community / Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-187) and index.

Introduction: liberation theology in dialogue with the Human Genome Project / Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite -- Science of Genetic: Setting the context: a brief history of science by a sympathetic theologian: Aristotle and Plato, Islamic science, medieval science and the west, Reformation and the Renaissance, Descartes, Newton, Darwin, Freud / Laurel Schneider -- An introduction to Medelian genetics: Gregor Mendel and peas, DNA, Autosomal recessive conditions, autosomal dominant conditions, X-Linked conditions / Lainie Friedman Ross -- From peapods to the Human Genome Project: post-Mendelian genetics: Chromosomal variations, clinical genetics, ethical and policy issues / Lainie Friedman Ross -- Being human: Theological anthropology and the Human Genome Project: theology and science, bringing theology to the HGP, redemption and resurrection, Imago Dei, reflection on Romans / Theodore W. Jennings Jr. -- Adam, Eve, and the genome: genome as text, quest for a "gay gene" as "etiological text", story of Adam and Eve as "etiological text", who asks etiological questions? / Ken Stone -- Critical issues: Dreaming the soul: African American skepticism encounters the HGP: racism in American history as a feature of the American dream, a way out of the nightmare, a different dream of being human, dreaming of freedom, the new dream, on being human / Lee H. Butler, Jr. -- A gene of violence? determinism and sin: a short history of the doctrine of sin, genetic determinism, flies who rape?, flawed science, human freedom and genetics, human dignity in the image of God, social sin and human violence, to sin rationally / Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite -- The chemistry of community: the "case" of hypertension in African Americans, the "case" of breast cancer, grace, soul body dualism, the grace of community / Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite.

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