Benjamin Gregg

Creating Human Nature (eBook, ePUB)

The Political Challenges of Genetic Engineering

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Human genetic enhancement, examined from the standpoint of the new field of political bioethics, displaces the age-old question of truth: What is human nature? This book displaces that question with another: What kind of human nature should humans want to create for themselves? To answer that question, this book answers two others: What constraints should limit the applications of rapidly developing biotechnologies? What could possibly form the basis for corresponding public policy in a democratic society? Benjamin Gregg focuses on the distinctly political dimensions of human nature, where politics refers to competition among competing values on which to base public policy, legislation, and political culture. This book offers citizens of democratic communities a broad perspective on how they together might best approach urgent questions of how to deal with the socially and morally challenging potential for human genetic engineering.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108897525
• Artikelnr.: 70911028

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Gregg is Professor of Social and Political Theory at the University of Texas at Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Political Bioethics of Regulating Genetic Engineering: 1.
Regulation Guided by Proceduralism; 2. Regulation Guided by
Less-than-Universal Standards; 3. Regulation Guided by Human Nature as
Construction Not Essence; 4. Regulation Guided by Human Dignity as
Decisional Autonomy Not Essence; Part II. The Political Dimensions of
Engineering Intelligence: 5. Threshold Capacities for Political
Participation; 6. Political Capacity of Human Intelligence and the
Challenge of AI; 7. Political Ambiguity of Personalized Education Informed
by the Pupil's Genome; Part III. Inequality as Unintended Consequence
Locally and as a Planetary Phenomenon: 8. A Human Right to Freedom from
Genetic Disability; 9. Deploying Epigenetics to Identify Responsibility for
Health Inequalities; 10. Genetic Engineering as a Technology of the
Anthropocene; Coda: Bioethics as Political Theory.