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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baylis, Françoise, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gene editing--Moral and ethical aspects.

Gene editing.

CRISPR (Genetics).

Genetic engineering--Risk assessment.

Genetic engineering.

Medical ethics.

Gene Editing--ethics.

Medical Subjects:

Gene Editing--ethics.

Physical Description:

287 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.

Summary:

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.-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674976719

0674976711

OCLC:

1089982512