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Between Moral Hazard and Legal Uncertainty

Ethical, Legal and Societal Challenges of Human Genome Editing

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  • © 2018

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Editors:
  1. Matthias Braun

    1. Chair of Systematic Theology II (Ethics), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität , Erlangen, Germany

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  2. Hannah Schickl

    1. Interdisciplinary Research Group “Gene Technology Report”, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin, Germany

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  3. Peter Dabrock

    1. Chair of Systematic Theology II (Ethics), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, Germany

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  • Current moral, legal and political questions about genetic engineering
  • An interdisciplinary approach
  • Answers to urgent questions about biotechnological development

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  2. Between Moral Hazard and Legal Uncertainty

    • Matthias Braun, Hannah Schickl, Peter Dabrock
    Pages 1-14

  3. Mapping the Current Legal Framing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Genome Editing and the Law

      • Stephan Rixen
      Pages 17-30

    3. Integrating Ethical Standards into the Human Rights Framework

      • Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor
      Pages 31-50

  5. Towards a Governance Frame in Dealing with Genome Editing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161
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    2. Who? What? How? Why? If You Don’t Ask You’ll Never Know …

      • Peter Dabrock
      Pages 163-185

    3. Debating Genome Editing Technologies

      • Lukas Kaelin
      Pages 187-201

    4. A Path Through the (Moral) Morass

      • Giulia Cavaliere
      Pages 203-225
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About this book

Genome Editing Techniques are seen to be at the frontier of current research in the field of emerging biotechnologies. The latest revolutionary development, the so-called CRISPR technology, represents a paradigmatic example of the ambiguity of such techniques and has resulted in an international interdisciplinary debate on whether or not it is necessary to ban the application of this technique by means of a moratorium on its use for human germline modifications, particularly in human embryos in the reproduction process. However, given that other germline engineering techniques like mitochondrial (mt) DNA transfer techniques are already permitted and applied, the question arises what lies at the root of the apparent social unease about the modification of the human germline by Genome Editing Techniques like CRISPR. Against this background, the book seeks to make a substantial contribution to the current debate about a responsible and participatory framework for research on emerging biotechnologies by analysing underlying perceptions, attitudes, arguments and the reasoning on Genome Editing Techniques.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Chair of Systematic Theology II (Ethics), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität , Erlangen, Germany

    Matthias Braun

  • Interdisciplinary Research Group “Gene Technology Report”, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin, Germany

    Hannah Schickl

  • Chair of Systematic Theology II (Ethics), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, Germany

    Peter Dabrock

About the editors

Matthias Braun is assistant Professor at the Chair of Systematic Theology II (Ethics), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.


Hannah Schickl is research assistant in the Interdisciplinary Research Group “Gene Technology Report”, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.


Peter Dabrock is Professor of Systematic Theology/Ethics at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and Chair of the German Ethics Council.

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