Creating future people : the science and ethics of genetic enhancement / Jonathan Anomaly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anomaly, Jonathan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genetic engineering--Moral and ethical aspects.

Genetic engineering.

Gene editing.

Physical Description:

152 pages illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Summary:

"Creating Future People offers readers a fast-paced primer on how advances in genetics will enable parents to influence the traits of their children, including their children's intelligence, moral capacities, physical appearance, and immune system. It explains the science of gene editing and embryo selection, and motivates the moral questions it raises by thinking about the strategic aspects of parental choice. Professor Anomaly takes seriously the diversity of preferences parents have, and the limits policymakers face in regulating what will soon be a global market for reproductive technology. Anomaly argues that once embryo selection for complex traits happens it will change the moral landscape by altering the incentives each person faces. All of us will take an interest in the traits everyone else selects, and this will present coordination problems that previous writers on genetic enhancement have failed to consider. Anomaly ends by considering how genetic engineering will transform humanity. Key Updates to the Second Edition ·Significant revisions to the Preface and three separate chapters to include more details about what will be scientifically possible in the coming years and the moral issues these developments will raise ·New and substantial coverage of embryo selection (guided by polygenic scores) for minimizing the risk of genetic diseases. Engagement with all important, new publications on the science of genetic enhancement"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Smart People

Good People

Pretty People

Healthy People

Synthetic People

Notes:

First edition published by Routledge 2020.

The Open access version of this book is available

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Anomaly, Jonathan. Creating future people

ISBN:

9781032734514

1032734515

9781032636573

1032636572

OCLC:

1404054113

Publisher Number:

99996828104