Playing God? Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate

2004 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-217
Author(s):  
John Berkman ◽  
Stanley Hauerwas ◽  
Jeffrey Stout ◽  
Gilbert Meilaender ◽  
James F. Childress ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Playing God ◽  
Human Genetic Engineering ◽  
Bioethical Debate

…Let No One Split Asunder: Controversy In Human Genetic Engineering

1987 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley S. Robin ◽  
Gerald E. Markle
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Social Implication ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human Genetic Engineering ◽  
Genetic Science

In 1980 the first recombinant genetic engineering experiments on humans were performed. These experiments sparked a major controversy, international in scope and potentially profound in its implications for genetic science. We develop four perspectives—substantive, network, organizational, and societal—from which science can be seen as a process having differing social implication and meaning. The research and controversy are discussed with attention to the conflicts and their resolutions from each perspective and among them. Taken together, the four perspectives are used as a single basis for understanding the social processes involved in this case study and the more general workings of science.

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