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

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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Baylis, Françoise,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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