Why We Should Defend Gene Editing as Eugenics

This paper considers the relevance of the concept of “eugenics,”—a term associated with some of the most egregious crimes of the twentieth century—to the possibility of editing human genomes. The author identifies some uses of gene editing as eugenics but proposes that this identification does not s...

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Main Author: Agar, Nicholas (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2019
In: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 28, Issue: 1, Pages: 9-19
Further subjects:B moral marketing
B Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
B morally problematic practice
B Eugenics
B gene editing
B morally wrong practice
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