| Contents |
Welcoming the unexpected / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson -- Flourishing and the value of authenticity / Daniel M. Haybron -- The dismal fate of flourishing in public policy bioethics : a sociological explanation / John H. Evans -- Editing the best of all possible worlds / Michael Hauskeller -- Daoism, flourishing, and gene editing / Richard Kim -- Can we care about nature? / Gregory E. Kaebnick -- Do more choices lead to more flourishing? / Sheena Iyengar, Tucker Kuman -- "Good parents" can promote their own and their children's flourishing / Josephine Johnston -- Parental responsibility and gene editing / Nicole A. Vincent and Emma A. Jane -- Choice, chance, and acceptance / Jackie Leach Scully -- Unravelling the human tapestry : diversity, flourishing, and genetic modification / Robert Sparrow -- Creaturehood and deification as anchors for an ethics of gene editing / Michael Burdett -- Recovering practical wisdom as a guide for human flourishing : navigating the CRISPR challenge / Celia Deane-Drummond -- Whose conception of human flourishing? / Dorothy Roberts -- Reprogenetic technologies : between private choice and public good / Maartje Schermer -- The politics of intrinsic worth : why bioethics needs human dignity / Gaymon Bennett -- Bioethics contra biopower : ecological humanism and flourishing life / Bruce Jennings. |
| Abstract |
The potential uses of CRISPR-Cas9 and other gene editing technologies are unprecedented in human history. Altering human DNA, however, raises enormously difficult questions. Some of these questions are about safety: Can these technologies be deployed without posing an unreasonable risk of physical harm to current and future generations? But gene editing technologies also raise other moral questions, which touch on deeply held, personal, cultural, and societal values. In the new essays collected here, an interdisciplinary group of scholars asks age-old questions about the nature and well-being. -- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2019012356 |
| ISBN | 9780190940362 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 0190940360 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |
| Standard identifier# |
40029632719 |
