Altered inheritance : CRISPR and the ethics of human genome editing /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baylis, Françoise, 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
Temas:
Gene editing > Moral and ethical aspects.
CRISPR (Genetics)
Genetic engineering > Risk assessment.
Medical ethics.
Gene Editing > ethics
Ethics, Medical
Édition génique > Aspect moral.
Génie génétique > Évaluation du risque.
Éthique médicale.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Genetic engineering > Risk assessment
Medical ethics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue
  • 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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