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