158 Lewis D. Solomon
2. Central Conference of American Rabbis, Responsum 5761.7“Human Stem Cell
Research,” fn. 6, available at http://www.ccarnet.org/cgu-bin/respdisp.pl
3. Rosner ,“Judaism, Genetic Screening and Genetic Therapy, ” Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, October/November 1998, 65:5 and 6, 406-413, pp. 410-411. See also Fred Rosner , M.D., Modern Medicine and Jewish Ethics(Hoboken , 1991), pp. 18889
14. David Golinkin ,“Does Jewish Law Permit Genetic Engineering on Humans?” Moment, August 1994, 19:4, 28-29, 67, p. 29. See also David M. Feldman, Birth Control in Jewish Law: Marital Relations, Contraception, and Abortion As Set Forth in the Classic Texts of Jewish Law(Northvale), p. 331
1S. Elliott N. Dorff, Matters of Life and Death: A Jewish Approach to Modern Medical Ethics(Philadelphia , 1998), p. 161
16. Id., pp. 163-164
17. Central Conference of American Rabbis, Responsum No. 154.“Jewish Involvement in Genetic Engineering”(1989), Walter Jacob , Questions and Reform Jewish Answers: New American Reform Responsa(New York , 1992), p. 252. The responsum notes that it“is not intended to discuss genetic engineering in human beings.”
18. Freundel,“Judaism, ” pp. 125, 135. The ethical arguments in favor of and opposed to germline gene therapy are summarized by Walters and Palmer, The Ethics of Human Gene Therapy, pp. 80-89. See also Eric T. Juengst,“Germ-Line Gene Therapy : Back to Basics,” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, December 1991, 16:6, 587-592
19. For a summary of anti-aging techniques and regenerative medicine procedures see S. Jay Olshanksy and Bruce A. Cares, The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging(New York , 2001), pp. 150-167, 186-212. See also Gwen Kinkead, The very Radical Business of Long Life and Eternal Youth(Fort Worth , February 2002), pp. 63-69, 108.
20. Barry Freundel,“Gene Modification Technology,” Engineering the Human Germline: An Exploration of the Science and Ethics of Altering the Genes We Pass