Engineering the Human Germline
An Exploration of the Science and Ethics of Altering the Genes We Pass to Our Children
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 17 February 2000
- ISBN 9780195133028
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages192 pages
- Size 234x156x12 mm
- Weight 440 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 line illustrations 0
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Short description:
This book is based on a one-day colloquium at UCLA, giving an overview of the potential and the practical details that need to be resolved to make human germline engineering possible. Chapters and panel discussions present the ethical and social concerns and implications of our fast-approaching capibility to alter our own germline and take an active role in the future evolution of our own species. Explanation of how we have arrived at the capability to clone higher animals, and the implications for human therapies and for our own future when these techniques are applied to the human germline are also discussed.
MoreLong description:
This book explores the many prospects, challenges and ethical questions of engineering our reproductive cells. It is an accessible, three-part examination, moving from focused, realistic assessments of the possibilities and problems for this advancing technology to a section of short essays on the implications of our technological ability by practicing ethicists, lawyers, theologians, public policy workers, and scientists. Also included in this exploration is a panel discussion in which leading scientists, ethicists, and public policy workers give voice to their thoughts and concerns regarding our impending genetic technologies. Many of the world leaders in these fields: Leroy Hood, French Anderson, Mario Capecchi, Daniel Koshland, Michael Rose, Lee Silver, and James Watson, have contributed to this volume, providing the tools needed to debate the subject of germline engineering. If you have ever pondered the question: "Would I be willing to genetically alter my own child-to-be, given a safe, reliable technology, offering a tempting possibility?", this book will be an indispensable guide in that quest.
The book should be commended for bringing to the fore the possibilityof germline manipulation within the next decade
Table of Contents:
Section One
A vision for human germline engineering
The human genome project - launch pad for human genetic engineering
Ethics and Safety
Human germline gene therapy: how and why
A new front in the battel against disease
Aging as a target for genetic engineering
Reprogenetics: how reproductive and genetic technolgies will be combined to provide new opportunities for people to reach their reproductive goals
Section Two
Panel: The road ahead
Section Three"R
Other voices - Introduction
Parental choices
Thoughts on the....
The psycho-social limits on human germline modification
Do we know ourselves well enough to be engineering humans?
Germline manipulation
Maximize parental choice
Our societal obligations for keeping human nature untouched
The question of purpose
Gene modification technology
Justice and the germline
Human germ line intervention: What's the fuss about?
Germline culture: The genetics of hubris
Liberty, equality, and solidarity in our genetically engineered future
Would humanity be better off...Or, what would it be better for?
Human dignity should not keep us from genetically engineering our children
Universal bioethics for the human germline
Multi-jurisdiction regulation of germline intervention 'A policy with neither virtue nor prospect of success
Section 4. Chapter Contributors and Essay Contributors
