CRISPR people : the science and ethics of editing humans / Henry T. Greely.

Author/creator Greely, Henry T. author.
Format Book
PublicationCambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2021]
Copyright Date©2021
Descriptionxiii, 380 pages ; 21 cm
Subjects

Variant title Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats people
Portion of title Science and ethics of editing humans
Contents Part I: Background -- Just What Did He Jiankui Do? -- Human Germline Genome Editing: What Is It? -- CRISPR: What Is It, Why Is It Important, and Who Will Benefit from It? -- Ethics Discussions of CRISPR'd Babies before He -- Law of CRISPR'd Babies before He -- Part II: Revelation and Its Aftermath -- The He Experiment Revealed -- World Reacts, And So Does China -- Who Knew What When?: Revelations of Pre-Summit Knowledge -- Part III: Assessing and Responding to the He Experiment -- Assessing the He Experiment -- Responses -- Part IV: Human Germline Genome Editing Generally: Now What? -- Is Human Germline Genome Editing Inherently Bad? -- Could Human Germline Genome Editing Sometimes Be Bad? -- Just How Useful Is Human Germline Genome Editing? -- How To Test Human Germline Genome Editing -- Big Decisions: and How To Make Them -- Conclusion.
Abstract "Beginning with the story of the Chinese 'CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) Babies,' Greely tells the complex story of human germline editing, covering the science, ethics, law, and politics"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages [299]-369) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Greely, Henry T. CRISPR people. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021] 9780262363563
LCCN 2020012654
ISBN9780262044431 hardcover
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