Altered inheritance CRISPR and the ethics of human genome editing

Altered inheritance CRISPR and the ethics of human genome editing

With the advent of CRISPR gene-editing technology, designer babies have become a reality. The author insists that scientists alone cannot decide the terms of this changing era in human evolution. Members of the public, with diverse interests and perspectives, must have a role in determining our futu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baylis, Françoise, 1961-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Gene editing > Moral and ethical aspects.
CRISPR (Genetics)
Genetic engineering > Risk assessment.
Medical ethics.
Gene Editing > ethics.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Genetic engineering > Risk assessment
Medical ethics
EBSCO eBooks
Online Access:https://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/2023/EBSCO/2242338.pdf
Table of Contents:
  • Targeting a single gene : Huntington's Disease
  • From editing a genome to altering inheritance
  • Babies by design
  • From "well" to "better than well"
  • Ethics in the interim
  • Of harms and wrongs
  • Slow science
  • Scientists, science policy, and politics
  • Ethicists, science policy, and politics
  • "All of us" for "us all"
  • Epilogue : A new dawn.

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