Creating human nature : the political challenges of genetic engineering / Benjamin Gregg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gregg, Benjamin Greenwood, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical genetics--Moral and ethical aspects.

Medical genetics.

Medical genetics--Law and legislation.

Genetic engineering--Government policy.

Genetic engineering.

Genetic engineering--Moral and ethical aspects.

Bioethics--Political aspects.

Bioethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 261 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Human genetic enhancement, examined from the standpoint of the new field of political bioethics, displaces the age-old question of truth: What is human nature? This book displaces that question with another: What kind of human nature should humans want to create for themselves? To answer that question, this book answers two others: What constraints should limit the applications of rapidly developing biotechnologies? What could possibly form the basis for corresponding public policy in a democratic society? Benjamin Gregg focuses on the distinctly political dimensions of human nature, where politics refers to competition among competing values on which to base public policy, legislation, and political culture. This book offers citizens of democratic communities a broad perspective on how they together might best approach urgent questions of how to deal with the socially and morally challenging potential for human genetic engineering.

Contents:

Regulation guided by proceduralism

Regulation guided by less-than-universal standards

Regulation guided by human nature as construction not essence

Regulation guided by human dignity as decisional autonomy not essence

Threshold capacities for political participation

Political capacity of human intelligence and the challenge of AI

Political ambiguity of personalized education informed by the pupil's genome

A human right to freedom from genetic disability

Deploying epigenetics to identify responsibility for health inequalities

Genetic engineering as a technology of the Anthropocene

Coda: Bioethics as political theory.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-89651-0

1-108-89752-5

1-108-89313-9

OCLC:

1376935222