Recommended for ethicists, legal scholars, and college students with a legal bent. This book is even stranger than science fiction, but Silver, a Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, assures us that the technology already exists, at least in basic form. Therefore research is ethically permissible and even desirable. Two male homosexuals could do the same. Written in popular and readable style, this book is not as well-argued in ethical and cultural terms as is the Pence book, though Silver and Pence might come to some of the same conclusions.
Silver seems to think that the technologies, including germ-line gene therapy, are already here.
He makes one telling argument, however, against them. The cost of germ-line gene therapy will prohibit all but the wealthiest from using it. All material on this website is protected by copyright. GeneSage Inc. All rights reserved. This website also contains material copyrighted by third parties.