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Imagine a future in which a country’s government is thinking about whether to pursue human enhancement. There are several ways that humans might be enhanced, among them physical aids, pharmaceutical interventions, and genetic modification. In this imagined scenario, enhancement is to be performed via germline genome editing (GGE)—that is, the modification of embryonic or gamete DNA to cause changes to the future person’s traits....

Type

Chapter

Book title

Clinical Ethics at the Crossroads of Genetic and Reproductive Technologies

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

14/08/2023

Keywords

Science, practical ethics, reproduction, genetic enhancement