Altering Nature

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • B. Andrew Lustig, Baruch A. Brody, Gerald P. McKenny

   Pages 1-14

3. Compatible Contradictions: Religion and the Naturalization of Assisted Reproduction

   • Cristina Traina, Eugenia Georges, Marcia Inhorn, Susan Kahn, Maura A. Ryan

   Pages 15-85

4. Religion, Conceptions of Nature, and Assisted Reproductive Technology Policy

   • John H. Evans

   Pages 87-107

5. Religious Traditions and Genetic Enhancement

   • Ted Peters, Estuardo Aguilar-Cordova, Cromwell Crawford, Karen Lebacqz

   Pages 109-159

6. How Bioethics Can Inform Policy Decisions About Genetic Enhancement

   • Robert Cook-Deegan, Kathleen N. Lohr, Julie Gage Palmer

   Pages 161-198

7. The Machine in the Body: Ethical and Religious Issues in the Bodily Incorporation of Mechanical Devices

   • Courtney S. Campbell, James F. Keenan, David R. Loy, Kathleen Matthews, Terry Winograd, Laurie Zoloth

   Pages 199-257

8. Medical Devices Policy and the Humanities: Examining Implantable Cardiac Devices

   • Jeremy Sugarman, Courtney S. Campbell, Paul Citron, Susan Bartlett Foote, Nancy M. P. King

   Pages 259-284

9. Biodiversity and Biotechnology

   • Nicholas Agar, David M. Lodge, Gerald P. McKenny, LaReesa Wolfenbarger

   Pages 285-319

10. Swimming Upstream: Regulating Genetically Modified Salmon

    • Paul A. Lombardo, Ann Bostrom

    Pages 321-335

11. Back Matter

    Pages 337-345

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B. Andrew Lustig, Baruch A. Brody, and Gerald P. McKenny In this second volume of the “Altering Nature” project, we situate specific religious and policy discussions of four broad areas of biotechnology within the context of our interdisciplinary research on concepts of nature and the natural in the first volume (Altering Nature, Concepts of Nature and the Natural in Biotechnology Debates). In the first volume, we invited five groups of scholars to explore the diverse conc- tions of nature and the natural that shape moral judgments about human alterations of nature, as especially exemplified by recent developments in biotechnology. A careful reading of such developments reveals that assessments of them—whether positive or negative—are often informed by different conceptual interpretations of nature and the natural, with differing implications for judgments about the app- priateness of particular alterations of nature. These varying interpretations of nature and the natural often result from the distinctive perspectives that characterize va- ous scholarly disciplines. Therefore, in an effort to explore the variety of meanings that attend discussions of the concepts of nature and the natural, the contributors to the first volume of Altering Nature addressed those concepts from five different disciplinary vantages. A first group of scholars analyzed a range of religious and spiritual perspectives on concepts of nature and the natural. Their research highlighted the thematic, h- torical, and methodological touchstones in those traditions that shape their persp- tives on nature.

• Ethics
• altering nature
• bioethics
• biotechnology
• morality
• public policy
• religion

• Davidson College, USA

  B. Andrew Lustig

• Baylor College of Medicine, USA

  Baruch A. Brody

• University of Notre Dame, USA

  Gerald P. McKenny

Policies and ethics