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Title Jews and genes : the genetic future in contemporary Jewish thought / edited and with an introduction by Elliot N. Dorff and Laurie Zoloth ; foreword by Mark S. Frankel.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource
Jews language
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Of the science of stem cell research / Elliot N. Dorff and Laurie Zoloth -- Applying Jewish law to stem cell research / Elliot N. Dorff -- Divine representations and the value of embryos : god's image, god's name, and the status of human nonpersons / Noam J. Zohar -- "Like water" : using Genesis to formulate an alternative Jewish position on the beginning of life / Yosef Leibowitz -- Reasonable magic : stem cell research and forbidden knowledge / Laurie Zoloth -- Summary of the science of genetic mapping and identity / Elliot N. Dorff and Laurie Zoloth -- Folk taxonomy, prejudice, and the human genome / Judith S. Neulander -- What is a Jew? The meaning of genetic disease for Jewish identity / Rebecca Alpert -- Yearning for the long-lost home : the lemba and the Jewish narrative of genetic return / Laurie Zoloth -- Summary of the science of genetic testing / Elliot N. Dorff and Laurie Zoloth -- Genetic testing in the Jewish community / Paul Root Wolpe -- Jewish genetic decision making and an ethic of care / Toby l. Schonfeld -- Summary of the science of genetic intervention / Elliot N. Dorff and Laurie Zoloth -- Some Jewish thoughts on genetic enhancement / Shimon Glick -- Curing disease and enhancing traits : a philosophical (and Jewish) perspective / Ronald M. Green -- Genetic enhancement and the image of god / Aaron l. Mackler -- "Blessed is the one who is good and who brings forth goodness" : a Jewish theological response to the ethical challenges of new genetic technologies / Louis E. Newman -- Jewish reflections on genetic enhancement / Jeffrey H. Burack -- Mending the code / Robert Gibbs -- Religious traditions in a postreligious world : does halakhah have insights for nonbelievers? / John Lantos -- How the unconscious shapes modern genomic science / Robert pollack -- To fix the world : Jewish convictions affecting social issues / Elliot N. Dorff.
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Subject Religion and Medicine.
Judaism.
Biomedical Research -- ethics.
Jews -- genetics.
Genetic Phenomena.
Genetics -- Religious aspects -- Jewish.
Genetics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Dorff, Elliot N., editor.
Zoloth, Laurie, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Jews and genes 9780827612242 (DLC) 2014034801 (OCoLC)889997868
ISBN 9780827611948 (electronic book)
0827611943 (electronic book)
9780827612242
0827612249
9780827611924 (epub)
9780827611931 (mobi)