https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/37025 2026-04-15T10:13:09Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/37187 Title: The Human Genome Project and human dignity Abstract: What is it that ultimately justifies scientific projects which cost millions of dollars? What ought to be done to ensure that the knowledge and power gained through scientific research be used for man's ultimate good? What precautions ought to be taken to make sure that this knowledge and the power which stems from it, is not abused to man's detriment? In this article I will attempt to examine these basic questions with regards to an area of research, which will certainly revolutionize the whole of medicine: the Human Genome Project The aim of the Human Genome Project is to decipher the entire human genetic code. This is an immense task: Human DNA is calculated to be about two meters long and 1 nml thick. It is made up of about three thousand million nucleotide bases? To isolate a genetic sequence within the human DNA is a very difficult enterprise: one B chain of haemogoblin contains 146 Amino Acids. Each Amino Acid requires three bases. Therefore the B chain is coded by a chain of 438 nucleotide bases on the DNA. This is equivalent to finding a 1.5 mm segment within two kilometers! 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/37186 Title: Maschile e femminile : verso un nuovo scambio simbolico Abstract: La questione dell'identita e anche una questione filosofica. Metterla in discussione richiede I' accettazione radicale della crisi del pensiero, at1raverso gli autori cosiddetti del sospetto: Marx, Freud e Nietzsche. L'impero della ragione e scosso dalla costatazione della sua dipendenza daBe strutture sociali di classe, dall'inconscio, dall'irrazionale desiderio di potenza. 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/37184 Title: Book reviews [Melita Theologica, 45(1)] Abstract: Books reviewed: Joseph A. FITZMYER, Romans (Anchor Bible 33, Doubleday; New York 1993) xxxiv, 793 pp. -- Baruch A.LEVINE, Numbers. 1-20 (Anchor Bible 4, Doubleday; New York 1993) xvi, 528pp. -- Piero CODA, Dio tra gli uomini. Breve eris/ologia, (Edizioni Piemme; Casale Monferrato 1991) 250pp. 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/37183 Title: Jesus and the law in St. Paul's Letters Abstract: I took a title which is somewhat general because it allows me to combine certain themes and at the same time to treat certain things separately. I would like to begin with the last part of the title: Paul's letters. If I want to study the Law and Jesus, and then the relationship between the two, I first have to determine as best I can what Paul actually wrote. This is not my theme here and so I will treat this very briefly. By and large, Catholic Scripture scholars today would agree that while fourteen pieces of literature in our New Testament have the name of Paul on them, seven are surely Paul's. They are the first letter to the Thessalonians, the letter to the Romans, the letter to the Galatians, the first letter to the Corinthians, the second letter to the Corinthians, Philippians and Philemon. The others that come under greater discussion and draw certain encouragement from some scholars are Colossians and Ephesians. When I search after Paul's thinking, I will concentrate on the letters I think he wrote. The other letters are called deutero Pauline letters; they are written by people greatly influenced by Saint Paul, therefore contain some Pauline theology but they are not written by Paul. Therefore you will find in them developments of Pauline theology by further theologians. 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z