Veit, Walter and Singer, Peter and Anomaly, Jonathan and Agar, Nicholas and Minerva, Francesca and Fleischmann, Diana (2021) Can 'Eugenics' be Defended? (Preprint). [Preprint]

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In recent years, bioethical discourse around the topic of ‘genetic enhancement’ has become increasingly politicized. We fear that there has been too much focus on the semantic question of whether we should call - or in this case perhaps it would be better to say brand - particular practices and emerging bio-technologies such as CRISPR ‘eugenicist’ or ‘eugenic’, rather than the more philosophically important question of how we should view them from the perspective of ethics and policy. Here, we address the question of whether ‘eugenics’ can be defended and how proponents and critics of enhancement should engage with each other

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Veit, Walter wrwveit@gmail.com 0000-0001-7701-8995 Singer, Peter Anomaly, Jonathan Agar, Nicholas Minerva, Francesca Fleischmann, Diana
Keywords:	Ethics; eugenics; enhancement; human enhancement; embryo selection; gene editing; CRISPR
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Medicine > Biomedical Ethics General Issues > Ethical Issues
Depositing User:	Dr. Walter Veit
Date Deposited:	22 May 2021 21:43
Last Modified:	09 Oct 2022 14:54
Item ID:	19071
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Medicine > Biomedical Ethics General Issues > Ethical Issues
Date:	2021
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/19071

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