Playing God?

by Ted Peters, Francis S. Collins (Foreword)

Since the original publication of Playing God? in 1996, three developments in genetic technology have moved to the center of the public conversation about the ethics of human bioengineering. Cloning, the completion of the human genome project, and, most recently, the controversy over stem cell research have all sparked lively debates among religious thinkers and the makers of public policy. In this updated edition, Ted Peters illuminates the key issues in these debates and continues to make deft connections between our questions about God and our efforts to manage technological innovations with wisdom.

Genres: Science

278 pages, Paperback

First published November 21, 1996

Reviews

[Brent Sacks · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good book I really liked, and out of the three I read for this project, I found it the easiest to read and the easiest to recommend. But it got kind of hard to follow (and consequently a little harder to recommend) at the end. For as clearly as he explained so many ideas throughout, the last chapter seemed written to an audience with more than a passing familiarity with the terms and ideas he discussed.

Each of the three books I read contained chapters that were tangentially related to my inquiry, but of the three, this one was shorter, clearer, and more on topic than the other two. It’s good!

[Jonathan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Does a good job at looking at the new questions in bioethics being brought about by advances in biotechnology.