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Aug 1, 2019 · Future generations and intergenerational justice. One of the key interests considered by the Nuffield Council report is that of future generations. It is crucial that the very long-term consequences of developing or failing to develop HGE be considered.
- Christopher Gyngell, Hilary Bowman-Smart, Julian Savulescu
- 2019
Jun 7, 2007 · Unlike the Nazi eugenics program of the 1930s, which involved the forced, widespread killing of “unfit” peoples and disabled babies, the de facto effect of genetic engineering is to cure disabilities, not kill the disabled. This is a key moral difference.
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- I. Introduction
- II. The Evolutionary Implications of Conventional Medicine
- III. Germline Intervention as A Moral Imperative
- IV. Darwinism, Social Darwinism, and The Ghosts of Eugenics Past
- V. Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
There is mounting evidence, ranging from advances in medical genetics to the successful genetic modification of laboratory animals, that humans will eventually be able to alter many of their biological characteristics—including their susceptibilities to disease—by modifying their genes. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis already allows couples at ri...
The few philosophers who have considered the evolutionary dimensions of human genetic engineering have focused either on its capacity to improve on the products of mechanistic evolution (Harris, 2007; Bostrom and Sandberg, 2009; Powell and Buchanan, 2011) or on its ability to accommodate novel selection pressures introduced, for example, by drastic...
Conventional medical intervention is often touted as less risky than germline modification because (inter alia) any harmful consequences of the intervention will be limited to the intervenee and not transmitted to the next generation. The flip side, however, is that if an undesirable trait is genetically heritable, then ameliorative modifications w...
To some readers, the idea that medical technology could alter selection pressures on human populations, resulting in socially undesirable outcomes, may smack of the discredited scientific conclusions and ethically suspect motivations of the social Darwinists and eugenicists of the 19th and 20th centuries (see e.g., Jonsen, 1998, chapter 6). Even if...
By now it should be clear that the present argument does not rely in any way on the erroneous scientific and normative presuppositions of the old eugenics. Even so, it remains an open question whether on balance the risks of repeating their moral failures outweigh the benefits to be obtained and injustices to be avoided by engaging in the large-sca...
I am grateful to Nicholas Agar, Steve Clarke, Tom Douglas, Anita Ho, Guy Kahane, Matthew Liao, Julian Savulescu, an audience at Oxford University, and three anonymous reviewers for comments on earlier drafts of this manuscript. I am especially indebted to Allen Buchanan, who provided invaluable feedback and critical encouragement from the very ince...
- Russell Powell
- 2015
How does the distribution of genetic technologies within the current generation influence the potential interests and well-being of future generations? This is the main inquiry of my thesis,
Interrogating Equity: A Disability Justice Approach to Genetic Engineering. By Ruha Benjamin. My approach to human genetic engineering draws on 10 years of research on the social impact and meaning of emerging biotechnologies, in particular regenerative medicine and genomics, in which I have examined the relationship between innovation and ...
Abstract. This paper explores some of the challenges raised by human genetic interventions for debates about distributive justice, focusing on the challenges that face prioritarian theories of justice and their relation to the argument advanced by Ronald Lindsay elsewhere in this issue of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal.
Mar 1, 2005 · There is a concern that genetic engineering will exacerbate existing social divisions and inequalities, especially if only the wealthy can afford genetic enhancements. Accordingly, many argue that justice requires the imposition of constraints on genetic engineering.
