Altered Inheritance : : CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing / / Françoise Baylis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Baylis, Françoise,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Prologue --; 1. Targeting a Single Gene: Huntington’s Disease --; 2. From Editing a Genome to Altering Inheritance --; 3. Babies by Design --; 4. From “Well” to “Better than Well” --; 5. Ethics in the Interim --; 6. Of Harms and Wrongs --; 7. Slow Science --; 8. Scientists, Science Policy, and Politics --; 9. Ethicists, Science Policy, and Politics --; 10. “All of Us” for “Us All” --; Epilogue: A New Dawn --; Abbreviations --; Glossary --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674241954; 9783110652031
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674241954
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Françoise Baylis.

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