Jackie Leach Scully
Autor von Playing in the presence : genetics, ethics and spirituality
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Jackie Leach Scully is senior lecturer at the School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology, and a member of the Policy, Ethics, and Life Sciences Research Centre, Newcastle University, UK
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It is about science and spirituality, and how the two are connected. It seemed important for the author to describe her reasons for becoming a scientist in the first place, and to explain why science is still important to her. In doing so it became impossible not to write about spiritual experience.
One very good reason for feeling unprepared for the ethical debate about gene technology is that in reality, we are unprepared…. Part of our responsibility now is therefore to gather information, to work at increasing our own and society's understanding, rigorously stripping away our prejudices and mistaken beliefs so that there can be more clarity.… (mehr)