Human flourishing in an age of gene editing /

The potential uses of CRISPR-Cas9 and other gene editing technologies are unprecedented in human history. Altering human DNA, however, raises enormously difficult questions. Some of these questions are about safety: Can these technologies be deployed without posing an unreasonable risk of physical h...

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Other Authors: Parens, Erik, 1957- (Editor), Johnston, Josephine (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
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Summary:The potential uses of CRISPR-Cas9 and other gene editing technologies are unprecedented in human history. Altering human DNA, however, raises enormously difficult questions. Some of these questions are about safety: Can these technologies be deployed without posing an unreasonable risk of physical harm to current and future generations? But gene editing technologies also raise other moral questions, which touch on deeply held, personal, cultural, and societal values. In the new essays collected here, an interdisciplinary group of scholars asks age-old questions about the nature and well-being.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0190940395
9780190940379
0190940379
9780190940393