by ITEST | Mar 30, 2019 | Morality
Author: Fr. Jean Kitahara-Frisch, SJ Article Abstract: The increasingly common practice of prenatal and preimplantation genetic diagnosis risks fostering in society a eugenic type of mentality. While a distinction must be made between compulsory, state organized,...
by ITEST | Mar 30, 2019 | Morality
Author: David Byers, PhD Article Abstract: After noting the differences between patent, copyright and trademarks, Dr. Byers establishes some common ground at the end of an ITEST workshop on Patenting of Biologicals. Biotechnology is as likely to confer great power for...
by ITEST | Mar 30, 2019 | Morality, Science and Technology
Author: Fr. Robert A. Brungs, SJ Article Abstract: Although written during the years of the Clinton administration, this article and commentary strikes a familiar note today – the hidden issue, for example, of population control as a prerequisite for averting the...
by ITEST | Mar 30, 2019 | Morality, Philosophy and Theology, Science and Technology
Author: Fr. Robert A. Brungs, SJ Article Abstract: A commentary on the 1995 petition (signed by many church and religious leaders) to “oppose the patenting of human and animal life forms…We (the church leaders) believe that humans and animals are creations...
by ITEST | Mar 30, 2019 | Morality
Author: Rev. Hubert Beck Article Abstract: The author, a Lutheran Pastor and Campus Minister, examines the first eleven chapters of Genesis, recounting how they set the stage for the universal world view of God’s relationship with creation in a “covenantal” bond. This...
