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  • Baylis, Françoise, 1961- author.
     
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  • Gene editing -- Moral and ethical aspects.
     
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  • CRISPR (Genetics)
     
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  • Genetic engineering -- Risk assessment.
     
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  • Medical ethics.
     
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    Altered inheritance : CRISPR and the ethics of human genome editing / Francoise Baylis.
    by Baylis, Françoise, 1961- author.
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    Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
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  • Gene editing -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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  • CRISPR (Genetics)
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  • Genetic engineering -- Risk assessment.
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  • Medical ethics.
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    9780674976719 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) :
    0674976711 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) :
    Description: 
    287 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
    Contents: 
    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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    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.--
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