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Can ‘eugenics’ be defended?
- Source :
- Monash Bioethics Review
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021.
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Abstract
- In recent years, bioethical discourse around the topic of ‘genetic enhancement’ has become increasingly politicized. We fear there is too much focus on the semantic question of whether we should call particular practices and emerging bio-technologies such as CRISPR ‘eugenics’, rather than the more important question of how we should view them from the perspective of ethics and policy. Here, we address the question of whether ‘eugenics’ can be defended and how proponents and critics of enhancement should engage with each other.
- Subjects :
- Eugenics
Gene editing
0603 philosophy, ethics and religion
Human enhancement
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Humans
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
Sociology
Ethics
Ethical issues
Enhancement
Perspective (graphical)
Environmental ethics
06 humanities and the arts
General Medicine
Bioethics
Focus (linguistics)
Genetic Enhancement
CRISPR
Commentary
Embryo selection
060301 applied ethics
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18366716 and 13212753
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Monash Bioethics Review
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c9640eea38acefbdc67d2b941560dcc8