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Theology, Disability and the New Genetics: Why Science Needs the Church

In May 2005 the University of Aberdeen's Centre for Spirituality, Health and Disability hosted an international symposium on genetics and disability, Genes Eugenics and the Future of Persons. The symposium drew together a multidisciplinary team of participants from Britain, Europe and the United States to reflect on the significance of genetic technology for the lives of people with disabilities and for our understanding of what it means to be human and to live humanly.

The fruits of this conference have just come to print from Continuum/T&T Clark in a volume entitled Theology, Disability and the New Genetics: Why Science Needs the Church edited by two members of staff in Practical Theology, Professor John Swinton and Brian Brock.  Commenting upon the book, Stanley Hauerwas remarked that it 'decisively challenges' current enthusiasm for the 'new genetics': 'The exaggerated claims associated with genomics is here challenged by reminding us there is nothing “wrong” with the disabled. Rather there is much wrong with us to the extent we would seek to eliminate the disabled in the name of compassion. Hopefully these essays will receive the attention they deserve.'

For more about the volume, follow this link to the T&T Clark webpage. 

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