The human genome is commonly regarded as a 'natural'connection between all human
beings, as it has been handed down to us by our predecessors. As such, it is believed to …

My focus in this paper is the question of the moral acceptability of attempts to modify the
human genome. Much of the debate in this area has revolved around the distinction …

Medical genetics, and genetic counseling in particular, is the practical application to
medicine of our knowledge of the processes of heredity which has undergone awesome …

This paper sets out to defend human genetic engineering with a new bioethical approach,
post-humanism, combined with a radical democratic political framework. Arguments for the …

The most important event in the rise of state-supported programs to sterilize the
feebleminded, the insane, and criminals was the rediscovery in about 1900 of Mendel's …

Evolutionary selection has been radically relaxed in the human species as a result of the
development of civilization, science in general, and medicine in particular. While these …

Biotechnology is a rapidly growing field that has pushed the limits of patent eligible subject
matter. In response to the expansion of biotechnology, critics have emerged with both …

Ethical debate on human germ-line gene therapy is in a new stage. After an era when only
individual convictions could be examined, technology is on a threshold of real possibilities …

Abstract The late John Robertson is renowned for the theory of 'procreative liberty'that he
expounded in his pioneering book, Children of Choice. Procreative liberty captures the …

Imagine a world where parents have the ability to genetically determine the characteristics of
their children. Before the conception of their child, they sit down with a genetic specialist and …