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ENGINEERING GENETIC INJUSTICE
Author(s) -
WENZ PETER
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
bioethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.494
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-8519
pISSN - 0269-9702
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2005.00421.x
Subject(s) - injustice , economic justice , confusion , environmental ethics , intervention (counseling) , sociology , law and economics , law , political science , epistemology , philosophy , psychology , psychoanalysis , psychiatry
In their jointly written book, From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice , Allen Buchanan, Dan Brock, Norman Daniels and Daniel Wikler defend ‘the development and deployment of genetic intervention technologies . . .’, including genetic enhancements, against charges that they exacerbate injustice. The present paper examines some of their arguments. The first section shows that the authors confuse real societies with just societies. The second shows that without this confusion, their arguments reveal the enormous justice‐impairing potential of deploying genetic enhancements in such societies as the United States.