Christianity and the New Eugenics
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Christianity and the New Eugenics by Calum Mackellar
What will it mean for society if science enables us to choose a future child whose health, athletic ability or intelligence is predetermined? This future is becoming ever more likely with the latest developments in human reproduction - but concerns are growing about the implications. New procedures making possible heritable genetic modifications such as genome editing open the door to 'sanitized' selective eugenics; but these practices have some unnerving similarities to the discredited eugenic programmes of early twentieth-century regimes. A Christian perspective based on Scripture gives us the resources we urgently need to evaluate both current and future selection practices. Calum MacKellar offers an accessible, inter-disciplinary analysis, blending science, history and Christian theology. This book will enable you to become fully informed about the new scientific developments in human reproduction - developments that will affect us all.
Most people will be totally unaware of the dark legacy of eugenics in the UK, let alone in the rest of Europe and the USMacKellar is probably the world’s most clear-sighted Christian exponent of this history and its modern counterpart – the new eugenics. It presents its apparently benign face throughout the National Health Service in the UK, but beneath the surface are issues that all of us need to know about. This book is a lucid, balanced and unique guide to help discern the truly therapeutic from the eugenic. * Trevor Stammers, Associate Professor and Director, Centre fo Bioethics and Emerging Technologies, St Mary's University, Twickenham, London *
Director of Research of a medical charity in Scotland and a Visiting Lecturer in Bioethics at St Mary’s University in London, England. He is also a Fellow with the Centre for Bioethics and Human Dignity at Trinity International University, Chicago, USA. In 1998, he was ordained an elder of the Church of Scotland (the Reformed and Presbyterian national church in Scotland since 1560) and was a member of its Church and Society Council from 2005 to 2013. Previously, he had been a senior civil servant with the Bioethics Division of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. He is the author of The Image of God, Personhood and the Embryo (SCM Press) and the co-editor of several volumes on biomedical ethics including The Ethics of the New Eugenics (Berghahn Books).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781783599134 |
| ISBN 10 | 1783599138 |
| Title | Christianity and the New Eugenics |
| Author | Calum Mackellar |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Inter-Varsity Press |
| Year published | 2020-05-21 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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