Title | Germ-Line Intervention and Our Responsibilities to Future Generations [electronic resource] / edited by Emmanuel Agius, Salvino Busuttil |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1998 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5149-8 |
Descript | XIV, 177 p. online resource |
I / From Laboratory to Germ-Line Therapy -- Screening for Genetic Diseases: What Are the Moral Constraints? -- The Moral Status of the Human Genome -- II / The Concept of Human Nature: Theological and Secular Perspectives -- The Zen World and the Mental Genes -- Moral Reasoning in Bioethics and Posterity -- Redesigning the Human Genome: Are There Constraints from Nature? -- Human Nature Genetically Re-engineered: Moral Responsibilities to Future Generations -- III / Genetic Interventions and The Common Heritage View -- Patenting Life: Our Responsibilities to Present and Future Generations -- Should We Treat the Human Germ-line as a Global Human Resource? -- IV / Social Responsibilities of Geneticists Toward Future Generations -- Germ-line Engineering as the Eugenics of the Future -- Guardianship by Peer Review in Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology -- Are We Our Descendantsโ Keepers? -- The Unknowable Effects of Genetic Interventions on Future Generations (Or, Who Guards the Genetic Engineers in Democratic Republics?) -- Homo Propheticus -- Notes on Contributors