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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baylis, Françoise, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genetic engineering--Risk assessment.

Genetic engineering.

CRISPR (Genetics).

Gene editing--Moral and ethical aspects.

Gene editing.

Medical ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

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."--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 (pages 233-266) and index.

ISBN:

9780674241961

0674241967

9780674241954

0674241959

OCLC:

1125187467