On Chimeras

Bernard E. Rollin; Bernard E. Rollin

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9744.2007.00856.x

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On Chimeras

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This essay is a critical response to Neville Cobbe's article “Cross‐Species Chimeras: Exploring a Possible Christian Perspective.” New technologies, particularly biotechnologies, raise major concerns in society. In the absence of good ethical thinking on these issues, bad ethical thinking becomes regnant. Two common types of bad ethical thinking are (1) confusing whatever disturbs people with genuine ethical issues and (2) confusing religious issues with ethical ones. Cobbe's article commits the former type of error with regard to the possibility of a mouse created with human brain neurons. I analyze and discuss that error and also raise questions about Cobbe's attempt to analyze the creation of chimeras from a Christian perspective.

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Gresham's law for ethics, chimeras, Christian response to chimeras, mouse with human brain neurons, ethics and biotechnology

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Rollin, B., (2007) “On Chimeras”, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 42(3), 643–648. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2007.00856.x

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Cobbe, Neville.2007. “Cross‐Species Chimeras: Exploring a Possible Christian Perspective. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 42: 599–628.

Greely, H. T., M. KCho, L. F.Hogle, and D. M.Satz. 2007. “Thinking about the Human Neuron Mouse. American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB Neuroscience) 7 (5): 27–40.

Heidegger, Martin.1962. Being and Time Trans. J.Macquarrie and E.Robinson. New York : Harper.

Rollin, Bernard E.2006. “Ethics, Biotechnology, and Animals .” In A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics, ed. PaulWaldau and KimberleyPatton, 519–32. New York : Columbia Univ. Press.

Rollin, Bernard E.2007. “Of Mice and Men. American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB Neuroscience) 7 (5): 55.

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Volume 42 • Issue 3 • September 2007

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Pages	643–648
Published on	2007-09-02

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