OBSOLETE: Human Genetic Engineering: Biotic Justice in the Anthropocene?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Gregg
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Human Genetic Engineering

…Let No One Split Asunder: Controversy In Human Genetic Engineering

1987 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley S. Robin ◽  
Gerald E. Markle
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Social Implication ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human Genetic Engineering ◽  
Genetic Science

In 1980 the first recombinant genetic engineering experiments on humans were performed. These experiments sparked a major controversy, international in scope and potentially profound in its implications for genetic science. We develop four perspectives—substantive, network, organizational, and societal—from which science can be seen as a process having differing social implication and meaning. The research and controversy are discussed with attention to the conflicts and their resolutions from each perspective and among them. Taken together, the four perspectives are used as a single basis for understanding the social processes involved in this case study and the more general workings of science.

Playing God? Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate

2004 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-217
Author(s):  
John Berkman ◽  
Stanley Hauerwas ◽  
Jeffrey Stout ◽  
Gilbert Meilaender ◽  
James F. Childress ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Playing God ◽  
Human Genetic Engineering ◽  
Bioethical Debate

scholarly journals CRISPR: A Revolutionary Technique... For Humans?

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chrissa Barroma
Keyword(s):  
Immune System ◽  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Gene Editing ◽  
Genomic Sequence ◽  
Somatic Cells ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Human Genetic Engineering

CRISPR/Cas9 is a revolutionary technique that carries the possibility of altering the genomic sequence of an organism. Discovered in a bacterial immune system, CRISPR/Cas9 has been a popular topic of discussion since its first publication in 2012. In this essay, the opposing arguments on the use of CRISPR/Cas9 are discussed, based on the practical uses in human genetic engineering. First, the technique is described along with the comparison of other successful gene editing techniques. Secondly, the ethical and clinical implications are also discussed, and the effects of CRISPR use on human germline and somatic cells. This essay aims to answer whether CRISPR/Cas9 should be used to edit the genome of humans?

Imagining Future People in Biomedical Law

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Britta van Beers
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Gene Editing ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Human Enhancement ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Future People ◽  
The Future ◽  
Biomedical Technologies ◽  
Human Genetic Engineering ◽  
Enhancement Technologies

Human genetic engineering and other human enhancement technologies bring about uncertainties and risks on both the physical and the conceptual and intangible levels. Much of the controversy surrounding these emerging technologies is due to the fact that categorical distinctions, such as between person and thing, and chance and choice, are blurred in radical ways. As a consequence, the emergence of biomedical technologies also entails, what could be called, metaphysical risks and symbolic uncertainties. This chapter explores the ways in which imaginings of the future of mankind and mankind itself have found their way into international legal regulation of biomedical technologies through an analysis of recent debates on the international ban on human germline genetic engineering. This prohibition, which is at the heart of international biolaw, is currently being questioned as recent scientific breakthroughs in the field of gene-editing are about to turn human genetic engineering into a reality.

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