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In his excellent study of genetic engineering and interventions into human reproduction, Kurt Bayertz explores the European attempt to maintain a “moral culture” in the area of genetic engineering and artificial reproduction. As Bayertz indicates, this concern is particularly salient in Germany. No doubt this circumstance is significantly determined by recent German history. But, as he notes, such appeals exist in Europe outside of Germany. In providing his analysis of this very particular cultural and moral phenomenon, Bayertz indirectly offers an account of the stress lines engendered by a profound change in European culture:. its significant deChristianization.
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Engelhardt, H.T. (1997). Moral Puzzles Concerning the Human Genome: Western Taboos, Intuitions, and Beliefs at the End of the Christian Era. In: Hoshino, K. (eds) Japanese and Western Bioethics. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 54. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8895-9_16
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