Genethics

In Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Stig Andur Pedersen & Vincent F. Hendricks (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 445–448 (2009)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Genes, Identity and Ethics Identity‐affecting Genetic Interventions Identity‐preserving Genetic Interventions Justice References and Further Reading.

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genetic revolution ‐ genetic screening, genetic pre‐implantation and pre‐natal diagnosis, gene therapy, cloning and genetic pharmacology   identity‐affecting genetic interventions   genetic interventions that affect who (in the numerical sense) comes to exist as identity‐affecting and those that do not as identity‐preserving   identity‐preserving genetic interventions   genetic pharmacology and gene therapy ‐ identity‐preserving and benefitting the recipients   genetic interventions ‐ morally impermissible and so possible undesirable end‐results of a slippery slope   distinction between treatment of disease, on one hand, and enhancement, on the other ‐ where a disease may be defined as a departure from species‐typical normal functioning   luck egalitarians ‐ to redistribute social assets to achieve this, but genetic technologies have made it possible to compensate by distributing natural assets instead

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10.1002/9781444310795.ch78

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