Between Moral Hazard and Legal Uncertainty: Ethical, Legal and Societal Challenges of Human Genome Editing (Technikzukünfte, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft / Futures of Technology, Science and Society)

by Matthias Braun (Editor), Matthias Braun (Editor), Hannah Schickl (Editor), Peter Dabrock (Editor)

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  Paperback
  2018

  $68.11

  Gene Editing Techniques are seen to be at the frontier of current research in the field of emerging biotechnologies. The latest development, the so-called CRISPR/Cas9 technology, represents a paradigmatic example for the ambiguity of such techniques and has been resulting in a debate whether or not it is necessary to ban this technique with a moratorium in the case of its use for germ line modifications. Thus, not only a discussion is taking place whether Gene Editing Techniques should be banned in general or only if applied in human embryos. Furthermore it is also on debate which moral and legal reasons are respective considered in dealing with this technique. The book seeks to substantially contribute to the current debate about a responsible as well as participatory frame for research with emerging biotechnologies by analysing the underlying perceptions, attitudes, arguments and the reasoning in dealing with CRISPR/Cas9.