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

by Baylis, Françoise, 1961-

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Harvard University Press, 2019.

Gene editing -- Moral and ethical aspects.

CRISPR (Genetics)

Genetic engineering -- Risk assessment.

Medical ethics.

9780674976719 (hc.)

Alternate title:

CRISPR and the ethics of human genome editing

287 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue -- 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.

With the advent of CRISPR gene-editing technology, designer babies have become a reality. Françoise Baylis insists that scientists alone cannot decide the terms of this new era in human evolution. Members of the public, with diverse interests and perspectives, must have a role in determining our future as a species.--From publisher.

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