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1 online resource (228 pages) |
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Technikzukünfte, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft / Futures of Technology, Science and Society Ser |
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Technikzukünfte, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft / Futures of Technology, Science and Society Ser
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| Contents |
Intro; Contents; Authors; 1 Between Moral Hazard and Legal Uncertainty. An Introduction; 1 The Debate on Human Germline Genome Editing; 2 The Technology and the Shift in the Current Debate; 3 Mapping the Underlying Ethical Arguments; 4 The Composition of this Anthology; References; I Mapping the Current Legal Framing; 2 Genome Editing and the Law. Some Remarks on Current Legal Challenges of CRISPR-Cas9; 1 The Function of Law in Biomedicine; 2 Legal Challenges; 3 Comparing Germany and the UK; 3.1 UK; 3.2 Germany; 3.3 International Law; 4 The Future of Legal Regulation; 5 Conclusion; Literature |
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3 Integrating Ethical Standards into the Human Rights Framework. Considerations towards the Future Regulation of Genome Editing on an International Level1 Introduction; 1.1 Genome Editing: Scientific Achievements and Applications; 1.2 Aims of the Contribution; 2 Background: The Relationship between Ethics and the Law in the Context of the International Regulation of Biotechnology; 3 Genome Editing: A Snapshot of the International Regulatory Initiatives of UNESCO; 3.1 The Ethical Mandate of UNESCO; 3.2 Standard-Setting Activities of UNESCO until now in the Field of Genome Editing |
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4 Considerations towards the Future International Governance of Genome Editing by UNESCO4.1 Integrating Ethical Standards into the Human Rights Framework?; 4.2 The Binding Effect of a Future Instrument; 4.3 The Practical Integration of Ethical Standards into a New Declaratory Instrument: The Role of Deliberation; 4.4 Effects on the Human Rights System; References; II Theoretical Challenges; 4 Prospects of Human Germline Modification by CRISPR-Cas9 -- an Ethicist's View; 1 Introduction: The Limited Half-time of Normative Boundaries in Bioethics |
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1.1 A Moratorium on Clinical Application but not on Clinically Oriented Research?2 Non-Consequentialist Arguments against Human Germline Genome Editing; 3 Consequentialist Arguments against Human Germline Genome Editing; 4 The Argument of Comparative Risk; 5 Objections; References; 5 Genome Editing, Non-Identity and the Notion of Harm; 1 Introduction; 2 The Principle of Nonmaleficence and the Notion of Harm; 3 The Non-Identity Problem; 4 The Pitfalls of Identity; 5 Do We Face the Non-Identity Problem in the Case of CRISPR?; 5.1 Considering the Case of Embryo Zero |
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5.1.1 A Needed Distinction of Cases5.2 Considering the Descendants of Embryo Zero; 6 How to Deal with the Non-Identity Problem?; 6.1 N* and the Question of a Justifiable Use of Technologies like CRISPR-Cas9; 7 Concluding Remarks; References; 6 Genome Editing and the Transgression of the Species Boundary. Does Species Affiliation Have an Ethical Relevance?; 1 Introduction; 2 Ethical Questions Regarding the Manufacture of Transgenic Organisms; 3 The Bioethical Argument from Species; 3.1 The "Transcendental-Pragmatic" Argument According to Robert Spaemann |
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3.2 The Neo-Aristotelian Argument from Species |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Human genome.
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Genome, Human
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Human genome
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Schickl, Hannah
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Dabrock, Peter
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| ISBN |
9783658226602 |
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3658226609 |
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