Ethics and the New Genetics

Preface MICHAEL VERTININTRODUCTION EmployingFunctional Specialization: Overview of a Group Experiment MICHAELVERTINPART ONE: SOME BIOETHICAL ISSUES IN HUMAN GENETICS: DELINEATING THE OPPOSED STANCES Research in Human Genetics: Technology, Information, Therapeutic Promise, and Challenge ROBERT ALLORE Response: Anne Summers Clinical Applications of Research in Human Genetics CHRISTINE E. JAMIESON Response: Jaro Kotalik Genetics in Health Care ANNE SUMMERS Commercialization of Human Genetic Research DAVID BLAKE FARRELL and EILEEN DE NEEVE Response: Peter IbbottPART TWO: DIFFERENTIATING THE PRE-EMPIRICAL COMPONENTS OF THE OPPOSED STANCES The Character of Moral Value, Moral Knowledge, and Moral Debate CYNTHIA CRYSDALE Response: Moira McQueen Religion as the Dynamic Horizon of Moral Discernment GORDON RIXON Response: Leo Walsh Discerning Catholic Positions on Particular Ethical Issues JOHN DOOL Response: Albert MoraczewskiPART THREE: TOWARD DETERMINING THE NORMATIVE STANCES Who Owns the Human Genome? DANIEL P. SULMASY Genetics, Medicine, and the Human Person: The Papal Theology JOSEPH BOYLE Key Issues in Genetic Research, Testing, and Patenting BARRY F. BROWN and RUSSELL J. SAWA Expanding Horizons for Moral Discernment: A Retrospective Synthesis WILLIAM F. SULLIVANIndex Contributors

H. Daniel Monsour is a research assistant with the Lonergan Research Institute or Regis College at the University of Toronto.