Brave New World?

Celia Deane-Drummond is Director of the Laudato Si' Research Institute and Senior Research Fellow in Theology, Campion Hall at University of Oxford, UK.

• 1. Introduction; Part 1: Insights From Science; 2. John A. Bryant: Genetic Modification of Animals and Humans, Principles, Practice and Possibilities; 3. Michael J. Reiss: "And in the World to Come, Life Everlasting"; Part 2: What Is It To Be Human? 4. Ruth Page: "The Human Genome and the Image of God"; 5. Neil G. Messer: The Human Genome Project, Health and the "Tyranny of Normality"; 6. Maureen Junker-Kenny: "Genes and the Self. Anthropological Questions in the HGP"; Part 3: Challenges To Ethical Frameworks; 7. Julie Clague: Beyond Beneficence. The Emergence of Genomorality; 8. Celia Deane-Drummond: How Might a Virtue Ethic Frame Debates in Human Genetics?; Part 4: Themes In Historical And Socio-Political Perspective; 9. Bronislaw Szerszynski: The Human Awaits Its Laplace; 10. Peter Scott: Is the Goodness of God Good Enough? The Human Genome Project in Theologico-Political Perspective; 11. Esther D. Reed: Property Rights, Genes and Heredity; 12. Conclusions; Index

'a conceptual analysis which provides a perfect transition into more theological and ethical questions.' ~ Brian Brock, Studies in Christian Ethics, Vol 19, No. 1