The concept of vulnerability has become widely acknowledged as a fundamental concept for
medical ethics and research ethics, yet rarely considered with respect to ethical …

The concept of vulnerability has become widely acknowledged as a fundamental concept for
medical ethics and research ethics, yet rarely considered with respect to ethical …

The concept of vulnerability has become widely acknowledged as a fundamental concept for
medical ethics and research ethics, yet rarely considered with respect to ethical …

Manipulation of the human germline is sometimes criticised as a severe intervention into
human nature. In order to assess the tenability of this claim, different uses of the term …

The mainstream bioethical discourse on germline editing, intervening in the genome of a
human embryo, has tended to focus on arguments of safety, benefits, autonomy and social …

The concept of vulnerability has played an important role in theoretical bioethics as well as
in numerous authoritative guidelines on research ethics. The concept helps to identify …

As highlighted by Kleiderman and Kellner Stedman's (2019) recent article, the case for the
use of genomic technologies, such as CRISPR/cas9 to undertake germline editing of human …

Alongside other bioethicists (Gyngell, Douglas, and Savulescu 2017), Sparrow argues
(2022) that by altering the human germline, this reproductive technology could have …

Germline genome editing is often disapproved of at the international policy level because of
its possible threats to human dignity. However, from a critical perspective the relationship …

Two major reports in the UK and USA have recently sanctioned as ethically acceptable
genome editing of future generations for the treatment of serious rare inherited conditions …