Enhanced Beings: Human Germline Modification and the Law

ISBN-13: 9781108471206 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 192 str.

Kerry Lynn Macintosh

Opis

Enhanced Beings explains how and why laws against human germline modification will do more harm than good.

Recenzje

'The ability to modify human genes will soon tempt parents to create designer children different - and arguably better - than nature would have done on its own. That prospect threatens to inflame public debate, and prompt ill-considered measures out of proportion to the issues at hand. To inform these developments, Kerry Lynn Macintosh has written a comprehensive account of the science, the likely implications, the ethical and policy arguments, and the possible legal responses. Her timely and well-written account promises to influence a controversial issue in a measured and intelligent way.' June Carbone, Robina Chair of Law, Science and Technology, University of Minnesota

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Objections to Human Germline Modification: 1. Therapy and enhancement; 2. Transgressing boundaries; 3. Transforming reproduction into manufacture; 4. Stratifying society; 5. Endangering democracy, society, and the species; Part II. Psychological Origins and Consequences of Objections to Human Germline Modification: 6. Psychological essentialism; 7. Envy; Part III. Human Germline Modification and the Law: 8. Existing laws and regulations; 9. Future laws and regulations; 10. Prohibiting human germline modification harms scientists and science, parents, children, foreigners, and society; Conclusion.