Between Moral Hazard and Legal Uncertainty
Ethical, Legal and Societal Challenges of Human Genome Editing
Editors: Braun, Matthias, Schickl, Hannah, Dabrock, Peter (Eds.)
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Between Moral Hazard and Legal Uncertainty
Pages 1-14
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Genome Editing and the Law
Pages 17-30
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Integrating Ethical Standards into the Human Rights Framework
Pages 31-50
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Prospects of Human Germline Modification by CRISPR-Cas9 – an Ethicist’s View
Pages 53-66
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Genome Editing, Non-Identity and the Notion of Harm
Pages 67-81
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Between Moral Hazard and Legal Uncertainty
- Book Subtitle
- Ethical, Legal and Societal Challenges of Human Genome Editing
- Editors
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- Matthias Braun
- Hannah Schickl
- Peter Dabrock
- Series Title
- Technikzukünfte, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft / Futures of Technology, Science and Society
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-658-22660-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-658-22660-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-658-22659-6
- Series ISSN
- 2524-3764
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 225
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
- Topics
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