Altered inheritance : CRISPR and the ethics of human genome editing /

Altered inheritance : CRISPR and the ethics of human genome editing /

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Author / Creator:	Baylis, Françoise, 1961- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	1 online resource (287 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Gene editing -- Moral and ethical aspects. CRISPR (Genetics) Genetic engineering -- Risk assessment. Medical ethics. Gene Editing -- ethics Ethics, Medical CRISPR (Genetics) Genetic engineering -- Risk assessment Medical ethics
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13541836

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ISBN:	0674241959 9780674241954 9780674241961 0674241967 9780674976719 0674976711
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record
Summary:	With the advent of CRISPR gene-editing technology, designer babies have become a reality. The author insists that scientists alone cannot decide the terms of this changing era in human evolution. Members of the public, with diverse interests and perspectives, must have a role in determining our future as a species. --
Other form:	Print version: Baylis, Françoise, 1961- Altered inheritance. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019 9780674976719
Standard no.:	10.4159/9780674241954

Table of Contents:

Targeting a single gene : Huntington's Disease
From editing a genome to altering inheritance
Babies by design
From "well" to "better than well"
Ethics in the interim
Of harms and wrongs
Slow science
Scientists, science policy, and politics
Ethicists, science policy, and politics
"All of us" for "us all"
Epilogue : A new dawn.