Creating Future People
The Ethics of Genetic Enhancement
Seiten
2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-20312-2 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-20312-2 (ISBN)
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A fast-paced primer on how new genetic technologies will enable parents to influence the traits of children. Jonathan Anomaly deftly explains the science of gene editing and embryo selection, and motivates the moral questions it raises with colorful language and a brisk style.
Creating Future People offers readers a fast-paced primer on how new genetic technologies will enable parents to influence the traits of their children, including their intelligence, moral capacities, physical appearance, and immune system. It deftly explains the science of gene editing and embryo selection, and raises the central moral questions with colorful language and a brisk style. Jonathan Anomaly takes seriously the diversity of preferences parents have, and the limits of public policy in regulating what could soon be a global market for reproductive technology. He argues that once embryo selection for complex traits happens it will change the moral landscape by altering the incentives parents face. All of us will take an interest in the traits everyone else selects, and this will present coordination problems that previous writers on genetic enhancement have failed to consider. Anomaly navigates difficult ethical issues with vivid language and scientifically informed speculation about how genetic engineering will transform humanity.
Key features:
Offers clear explanations of scientific concepts
Explores important moral questions without academic jargon
Brings discoveries from different fields together to give us a sense of where humanity is headed
Creating Future People offers readers a fast-paced primer on how new genetic technologies will enable parents to influence the traits of their children, including their intelligence, moral capacities, physical appearance, and immune system. It deftly explains the science of gene editing and embryo selection, and raises the central moral questions with colorful language and a brisk style. Jonathan Anomaly takes seriously the diversity of preferences parents have, and the limits of public policy in regulating what could soon be a global market for reproductive technology. He argues that once embryo selection for complex traits happens it will change the moral landscape by altering the incentives parents face. All of us will take an interest in the traits everyone else selects, and this will present coordination problems that previous writers on genetic enhancement have failed to consider. Anomaly navigates difficult ethical issues with vivid language and scientifically informed speculation about how genetic engineering will transform humanity.
Key features:
Offers clear explanations of scientific concepts
Explores important moral questions without academic jargon
Brings discoveries from different fields together to give us a sense of where humanity is headed
Jonathan Anomaly is Associate Director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program at the University of Pennsylvania, and a visiting scholar at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford University. He is the co-editor of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (2015).
1. Smart People / Cognitive Enhancement 2. Good People / Moral Enhancement 3. Pretty People / Aesthetic Enhancement 4. Healthy People / Immuno-Enhancement 5. Synthetic People / Creating Life from Scratch Conclusion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.02.2020 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 2 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 131 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-367-20312-X / 036720312X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-20312-2 / 9780367203122 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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