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Embodiment, Morality, and Medicine pp 59–73Cite as

Genetic Research and the Elusive Body

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Examining the relationship between genetic research and the human body is, I have found, surprisingly new. Genetic research concerns a code, the genotype or DNA structure, and that code is usually studied prior to or apart from the human body. Certainly, geneticists investigate how the code affects bodily health and structure, but I have been unable to find any written reflection at all on the philosophical presuppositions that geneticists maintain regarding the human body. I have found, however, considerable evidence that geneticists hold a fairly dualistic view of the human in which the person and the human body are considered separately. At the same time, recent research in genetics presents new information about the human body that could challenge such dualism.

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Keenan, J.F. (1995). Genetic Research and the Elusive Body. In: Cahill, L.S., Farley, M.A. (eds) Embodiment, Morality, and Medicine. Theology and Medicine, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8424-1_4

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