Creating Human Nature: The Political Challenges of Genetic Engineering

ISBN-13: 9781108789714 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Benjamin Gregg

Opis

Introduces the new field of 'political bioethics,' focusing on the peculiarly political questions posed by human genetic engineering.

Spis treści

Part I. The Political Bioethics of Regulating Genetic Engineering: 1. Regulation Guided by Proceduralism; 2. Regulation Guided by Less-than-Universal Standards; 3. Regulation Guided by Human Nature as Construction Not Essence; 4. Regulation Guided by Human Dignity as Decisional Autonomy Not Essence; Part II. The Political Dimensions of Engineering Intelligence: 5. Threshold Capacities for Political Participation; 6. Political Capacity of Human Intelligence and the Challenge of AI; 7. Political Ambiguity of Personalized Education Informed by the Pupil's Genome; Part III. Inequality as Unintended Consequence Locally and as a Planetary Phenomenon: 8. A Human Right to Freedom from Genetic Disability; 9. Deploying Epigenetics to Identify Responsibility for Health Inequalities; 10. Genetic Engineering as a Technology of the Anthropocene; Coda: Bioethics as Political Theory.