This volume offers biblical perspectives on humanness, infertility, the quest for the perfect child, genetics, biotechnology and stem cells, abortion and infanticide, euthanasia and assisted suicide, and concludes with a look at the future of humanity.
There is no place, it seems, that feelings do not run high about feelings. Western civilization is still caught between adoration of the emotions as sublime and denigration of them as merely animal. Can we trust our feelings? Should we suppress them or should we indulge them? In what part of our persons ...
Richard Harries has been at the heart of thinking about issues include cloning, human-animal hybrids and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. He shows that the Western Christian tradition is compatible with work in this area.