Theology, disability, and the new genetics : why science needs the church / edited by John Swinton and Brian Brock.

London : T & T Clark, [2007], ©2007.

x, 251 pages ; 24 cm

Being disabled in the new world of genetic testing : a snapshot of shifting landscapes / Brian and Stephanie Brock -- 'What's wrong with you?' : disability and genes as ethics / Christopher Newell -- Life as being in relationship : moving beyond a deficiency-orientated view of human life / Martina Holder-Franz -- Arguing about genetics and disability / Tom Shakespeare -- To form a more perfect union : mainline Protestantism and the popularization of eugenics / Amy Laura Hall -- Aren't we all eugenicists anyway? / Mary B. Mahowald -- Conditio humana as viewed by a geneticist / Walter Doerfler -- Researching genetics and health : implications for public health primary care medicine / Blair Smith -- Genetics, conversation, and conversion : a discourse at the interface of molecular biology and Christian ethics / Brian Brock, Walter Doerfler and Hans Ulrich -- Life's goodness : on disability, genetics and 'choice' / Hans S. Reinders -- Angels with clipped wings : the disabled as key to the recognition of personhood / Bernd Wannenwetsch -- Disability and the quest for perfection : a moral and theological inquiry / Brent Waters -- The broken body and the disabled body : reflections on disability and the objects of medicine / Jeffrey P. Bishop -- Conclusion : fragility and grace : theology and disability / Robert Song.

Includes bibliographical references and index.