Designing our descendants
Subtitle: the promises and perils of genetic modifications
By: edited by Audrey R. Chapman and Mark S. Frankel
Contributors: Chapman, Audrey R; Frankel, Mark S
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
Subjects: Genetic engineering; Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects; Genetic engineering -- Government policy -- United States; Medical genetics
Description: "In three sections, the authors discuss the short- and the long-term scientific feasibility of IGM technology; ethical and religious issues related to safety, justice, morality, reproductive rights, and enhancement; and regulatory issues, including the necessity of public input and oversight and the influence of commercialization. Their goal is to open a dialogue engaging not only scholars and scientists but also government officials and concerned citizens. The authors conclude that, although IGMs cannot be carried out safely and responsibly on humans using current methods, it is important to begin public discussion now to determine whether, and if so how, to proceed."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Framing the issues / Audrey R. Chapman and Mark S. Frankel; title: Germ-line dancing : definitional considerations for policy makers / Eric Juengst and Erik Parens; title: Approaches to gene transfer to the mammalian germ line / Theodore Friedmann; title: Scientific methodologies to facilitate inheritable genetic modifications in humans / Bhavani G. Pathak; title: Germ-line modification in clinical medicine : is there a case for intentional or unintended germ-line changes? / R. Michael Blaese; title: Gene repair, genomics, and human germ-line modification / Kenneth W. Culver; title: Germ-line gene therapy : can we do it, do we need it, where do we start, and where might it lead? / Christopher H. Evans; title: The moral impasse in human embryo research : bypasses in the making? / John Fletcher; title: The implications of inheritable genetic modifications for justice / Audrey R. Chapman; title: The hidden eugenic potential of germ-line interventions / Troy Duster; title: Ethical differences between inheritable genetic modification and embryo selection / Bonnie Steinbock; title: Human limits : theological perspectives on germ-line modification / Ronald Cole-Turner; title: Germ-line intervention and the moral tradition of the Catholic Church / Albert Moraczewski; title: Uncountable as the stars : inheritable genetic intervention and the human future, a Jewish perspective / Laurie Zoloth; title: Parental liberty and the right of access to germ-line intervention : a theological appraisal of parental power / Sondra Wheeler; title: Inheritable genetic modifications : do we owe them to our children? / Pilar N. Ossorio; title: National policies to oversee inheritable genetic modifications research / Julie Gage Palmer and Robert Cook-Deegan; title: Designing tomorrow's children : the right to reproduce and oversight of germ-line interventions / Cynthia B. Cohen; title: To market, to market : effects of commerce on cross-generational genetic change / Mark S. Frankel and Michele S. Garfinkel; title: Recommendations for policy / Mark S. Frankel and Audrey R. Chapman; title: Appendix A. Consent form for participation in a study of inheritable germ-line modification / Julie Gage Palmer; title: Appendix B. AAAS report on IGM : major findings, concerns, and recommendations; title: Appendix C. IGM Project working group