Human genetic engineering and social justice in South Africa: Moltmann and human dignity

dc.contributor.authorKotze, Manitza
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-08T09:01:05Z
dc.date.available2018-05-08T09:01:05Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThe realities of social injustice in the present South African context, with its great and growing gap between rich and poor and unequal distribution of wealth and resources, are also acutely visible in the health-care sector. Genetic engineering would lead to some children having the cards stacked overwhelmingly in their favour, raising the concern for the justice or fairness of this type of biotechnology. In this contribution, I argue that the notion of justice as fairness, put forward by Rawls, and the focus on human dignity in Moltmann�s theology can help address the bioethical challenges of genetic engineering in the context of inequality, specifically in South Africa.en_US
dc.description.accreditationDHET
dc.identifier.citationKotze, M. (2016). Human genetic engineering and social justice in South Africa: Moltmann and human dignity, Acta Theologica, 36(1): 70?84en_US
dc.identifier.issn1015-8758
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.4314/actat.v36i1.5
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/3641
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherUniversity of the Free State, Faculty of Theologyen_US
dc.rightsAll the contents of this journal, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectSocial injusticeen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectDistribution of wealthen_US
dc.subjectGenetic engineeringen_US
dc.titleHuman genetic engineering and social justice in South Africa: Moltmann and human dignityen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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