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Title Human flourishing in an age of gene editing / edited by Erik Parens, Josephine Johnston
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

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Contents Introduction to Human Flourishing in an Age of Gene Editing / Erik Parens and Josephine Johnston -- PART I WHAT IS HUMAN FLOURISHING? -- Welcoming the Unexpected / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson -- 2. Flourishing and the Value of Authenticity / Daniel M. Haybron -- 3. The Dismal Fate of Flourishing in Public Policy Bioethics: A Sociological Explanation / John H. Evans -- PART II THE VALUE OF ACCEPTANCE -- 4. Editing the Best of All Possible Worlds / Michael Hauskeller -- 5. Daoism, Flourishing, and Gene Editing / Richard Kim -- 6. Can We Care about Nature? / Gregory E. Kaebnick -- PART III IS CONTROL THE KEY TO FLOURISHING? -- 7. Do More Choices Lead to More Flourishing? / Sheena Iyengar and Tucker Kuman -- 8. "Good Parents" Can Promote Their Own and Their Children's Flourishing / Josephine Johnston -- 9. Parental Responsibility and Gene Editing / Nicole A. Vincent and Emma A. Jane -- PART IV BALANCING ACCEPTANCE AND CONTROL -- 10. Choice, Chance, and Acceptance / Jackie Leach Scully -- 11. Unraveling the Human Tapestry: Diversity, Flourishing, and Genetic Modification / Robert Sparrow -- 12. Creaturehood and Deification as Anchors for an Ethics of Gene Editing / Michael Burdett -- 13. Recovering Practical Wisdom as a Guide for Human Flourishing: Navigating the CRISPR Challenge / Celia Deane-Drummond -- PART V FLOURISHING TOGETHER -- 14. Whose Conception of Human Flourishing? / Dorothy Roberts -- 15. Reprogenetic Technologies Between Private Choice and Public Good / Maartje Schermer -- 16. The Politics of Intrinsic Worth: Why Bioethics Needs Human Dignity / Gaymon Bennett -- 17. Bioethics Contra Biopower: Ecological Humanism and Flourishing Life / Bruce Jennings
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 27, 2019)
Subject Gene editing -- Moral and ethical aspects
Bioethics.
Life.
Humanism.
Quality of life.
Happiness.
Gene Editing -- ethics
Humanism
Quality of Life
Happiness
humanism.
quality of life.
Quality of life
Humanism
Happiness
Bioethics
Life
Form Electronic book
Author Parens, Erik, 1957- editor.
Johnston, Josephine, editor.
ISBN 0190940395
9780190940379
0190940379
9780190940393