This book explores the way changes in technology have altered the relationship between ethics and medicine. For some inherited diseases, new genetic testing technologies may provide much more accurate diagnostic and predictive information which raises important questions about consent, confidentiality and use of the information by family members and other third parties. What are the implications of this knowledge for individuals and their families? And for society more widely? How should this new information be used? How do people deal with the choices that new knowledge and technologies offer? Drawing on extensive ethnographic research with families affected by Huntington's Disease, and using perspectives from medical and cultural anthropology, the author explores the huge disparity between the experience of living with the results of genetic testing and the knowledge and expertise which are drawn on to develop policy and clinical services.
From Christianity s very beginning, it has had a difficult relationship with the world of money. Christians have figured among the fiercest critics of the workings of finance and banking, whether in the distant past or the twentieth-first century. However, Christian thinkers are among the most prominent contributors to the development of financial tools and institutions that we take for granted today. Through developing sophisticated understandings of the nature and wealth-creating capacity of capital, Christian theologians, philosophers, and financiers exerted considerable influence upon the emergence and development of the international financial systems that helped unleash a revolution in the way the world thinks about and uses capital. In "For God and Profit," Samuel Gregg underscores the different ways in which Christians have helped to develop the financial and banking systems that have helped millions escape poverty for hundreds of years. But he also provides a critical lens through which to assess the workings and failures of modern finance and banking. Far from being doomed to producing economic instability and periodic financial crises, Gregg illustrates that Narrating the New Predictive Genetics : Ethics, Ethnography and Science free pdf how Christian faith and reason can shape financial practices and banking institutions in ways that restore integrity to our troubled financial systems."
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Author: Monica Konrad
Number of Pages: 216 pages
Published Date: 30 Mar 2005
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Publication Country: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780521540667
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