Controlling our destinies : historical, philosophical, ethical, and theological perspectives on the Human Genome Project / edited by Phillip R. Sloan.

Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press, [2000], ©2000.

xxx, 535 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Introductory essay. Completing the tree of Descartes / Phillip R. Sloan -- pt. 1. Origins of the Genome Project: introductory commments. The Manhattan Project for biomedicine / Timothy Lenoir and Marguerite Hays. Whose work shall we trust? Genetics, pediatrics, and hereditary diseases in postwar France / Jean-Paul Gaudillière. Commentary / Robert A. Bud. A book of life? How a genetic code became a language / Lily E. Kay. Commentary / Hans-Jörg Rheinberger. Origins of the U.S. Human Genome Project: the changing relationships between genetics and national security / John Beatty. Metaphors of morality in the Human Genome Project / Alice Domurat Dreger -- pt. 2. The Genome Project and eugenics: introductory comments. Defining the defective: eugenics, esthetics, and mass culture in early twentieth-century America / Martin S. Pernick. What's morally wrong with eugenics? / Arthur L. Caplan. Commentary / Timothy Murphy. Utopian eugenics and social inequality / Philip Kitcher. Commentary / Diane R. Paul -- pt. 3. Is a strong genetic reductionist program possible?: introductory comments. Is there an organism in this text? / Evelyn Fox Keller. Commentary / Jean Gayon. Reductionism and determinism in human genetics: lessons from simple organisms / Kenneth F. Schaffner. Commentary / Edward Manier -- pt. 4. Reductionism, determinism and theological humanism: introductory comments. Relating genetics to theology on the map of scientific knowledge / Arthur R. Peacocke. Biology and the theology of the human / Ernan McMullin. Philosophical anthropologies and the Human Genome Project / Kevin T. FitzGerald. Commentary / John M. Staudenmaier -- Afterword. The geneticization of western civilization: blessing or bane? / John M. Opitz

Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-511) and index.