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Human Flourishing in an Age of Gene Editing (Paperback)
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Human Flourishing in an Age of Gene Editing (Paperback)
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International uproar followed the recent announcement of the birth
of twin girls whose genomes had been edited with a breakthrough DNA
editing-technology. This technology, called clustered regularly
interspaced short palindrome repeats or CRISPR-Cas9, can alter any
DNA, including DNA in embryos, meaning that changes can be passed
to the offspring of the person that embryo becomes. Should we use
gene editing technologies to change ourselves, our children, and
future generations to come? The potential uses of CRISPR-Cas9 and
other gene editing technologies are unprecedented in human history.
By using these technologies, we eradicate certain dreadful
diseases. 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? Can all physical
risks be adequately assessed, and responsibly managed? But gene
editing technologies also raise other moral questions, which touch
on deeply held, personal, cultural, and societal values: Might such
technologies redefine what it means to be healthy, or normal, or
cherished? Might they undermine relationships between parents and
children, or exacerbate the gap between the haves and have-nots?
The broadest form of this second kind of question is the focus of
this book: What might gene editing-and related technologies-mean
for human flourishing? In the new essays collected here, an
interdisciplinary group of scholars asks age-old questions about
the nature and well-being of humans in the context of a
revolutionary new biotechnology-one that has the potential to
change the genetic make-up of both existing people and future
generations. Welcoming readers who study related issues and those
not yet familiar with the formal study of bioethics, the authors of
these essays open up a conversation about the ethics of gene
editing. It is through this conversation that citizens can
influence laws and the distribution of funding for science and
medicine, that professional leaders can shape understanding and use
of gene editing and related technologies by scientists, patients,
and practitioners, and that individuals can make decisions about
their own lives and the lives of their families.
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