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Human Genome Editing and a Global Socio‐bioethics Approach
Author(s) -
Nie JingBao
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1002/hast.1200
Subject(s) - bioethics , genome editing , crispr , engineering ethics , ethical issues , cas9 , sociology , environmental ethics , political science , genetics , biology , law , gene , philosophy , engineering
A global socio‐bioethics is called upon to address the ethical challenges arising from the revolutionary gene editing technologies such as CRISPR‐Cas9, which offers the capability to rewrite the human genome. The ethical inquiry Françoise Baylis has undertaken in the book Altered Inheritance: CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing (Harvard University Press, 2019) operates at individual, societal and global levels. Baylis has not only presented insights on how to practice “slow science” and achieve broad societal consensus through empowering the public, but she also shown what a global socio‐bioethics approach can offer for the further development of bioethics .