Altered Inheritance

CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing

Françoise Baylis

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$24.95 • £19.95 • €22.50

ISBN 9780674976719

Publication Date: 09/17/2019

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304 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

11 illus.

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Prologue
1. Targeting a Single Gene: Huntington’s Disease
2. From Editing a Genome to Altering Inheritance
3. Babies by Design
4. From “Well” to “Better than Well”
5. Ethics in the Interim
6. Of Harms and Wrongs
7. Slow Science
8. Scientists, Science Policy, and Politics
9. Ethicists, Science Policy, and Politics
10. “All of Us” for “Us All”
Epilogue: A New Dawn
Acronyms
Glossary
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

Awards & Accolades

2020 PROSE Award in Clinical Medicine, Association of American Publishers

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