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The myth of genetic enhancement

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 2012
The ongoing revolution in molecular genetics has led many to speculate that one day we will be able to change the expression or phenotype of numerous complex traits to improve ourselves in many different ways. The prospect of genetic enhancements has generated heated controversy, with proponents advocating research and implementation, with caution ...
P. Rosoff
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A Confucian Reflection on Genetic Enhancement

The American Journal of Bioethics, 2010
This essay explores a proper Confucian vision on genetic enhancement. It argues that while Confucians can accept a formal starting point that Michael Sandel proposes in his ethics of giftedness, namely, that children should be taken as gifts, Confucians cannot adopt his generalist strategy.
R. Fan
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Some Jewish thoughts on genetic enhancement

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2011
The issues of the ethics of germ line modification in general and of enhancement by germ line modification in particular have been the subject of hundreds of articles in the bioethical literature. Both because the techniques are far from perfected and because the potential long term side effects are unkown, there is a widespread consensus that germ ...
S. Glick
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The Inevitability of Genetic Enhancement Technologies

Bioethics, 2004
ABSTRACTWe outline a number of ethical objections to genetic technologies aimed at enhancing human capacities and traits. We then argue that, despite the persuasiveness of some of these objections, they are insufficient to stop the development and use of genetic enhancement technologies.
Jason Scott Robert, Françoise Baylis
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Are “Genetic Enhancements” Really Enhancements?

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2000
The word enhancement is value laden and potentially misleading in the context of genetics. Dictionary definitions of enhance include “increase in value,” “improve,” “appreciate,” and “inflate.” The term genetic enhancement would be better replaced with a more neutral term such as “genetic manipulation” to reflect the fact that the consequences ...
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Genetic Enhancement in Humans

Science, 1999
A great deal of public excitement and controversy has been associated with advances in gene technology, especially the idea that humans could be experimentally "enhanced." However, based on the recent history of transgenic experiments in animals, the prospects are much less rosy than portrayed, and even successful efforts could not affect human ...
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Forgiveness, tolerance, and genetic enhancement

Ethics, Medicine and Public Health, 2016
Summary Genetic enhancement that aims to remove human weaknesses would possibly ruin many things that have considerable moral value. Certain mental processes, such as (1) the process of forgiving and (2) the process of finding something tolerable consist partly of perceiving the other person as psychologically weak, and social institutions of ...
Juha Räikkä, Marko Ahteensuu
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