Genetics and human malleability.

نویسنده

  • W F Anderson
چکیده

Just how much can, and should we change human nature by genetic engineering? Our response to that hinges on the answers to three further questions: (1) What can we do now? Or more precisely, what are we doing now in the area of human genetic engineering? (2) What will we be able to do? In other words, what technical advances are we likely to achieve over the next five to ten years? (3) What should we do? I will argue that a line can be drawn and should be drawn to use gene transfer only for the treatment of serious disease, and not for any other purpose. Gene transfer should never be undertaken in an attempt to enhance or "improve" human beings.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Hastings Center report

دوره 20 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1990