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Moral reasons to edit the human genome: picking up from the Nuffield report
In July 2018, the Nuffield Council of Bioethics released its long-awaited report on heritable genome editing (HGE). The Nuffield report was notable for finding that HGE could be morally permissible, even in cases of human enhancement. In this paper, we summarise the findings of the Nuffield Council...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6820147/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30679191 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2018-105084 |
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author | Gyngell, Christopher Bowman-Smart, Hilary Savulescu, Julian |
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description | In July 2018, the Nuffield Council of Bioethics released its long-awaited report on heritable genome editing (HGE). The Nuffield report was notable for finding that HGE could be morally permissible, even in cases of human enhancement. In this paper, we summarise the findings of the Nuffield Council report, critically examine the guiding principles they endorse and suggest ways in which the guiding principles could be strengthened. While we support the approach taken by the Nuffield Council, we argue that detailed consideration of the moral implications of genome editing yields much stronger conclusions than they draw. Rather than being merely ‘morally permissible’, many instances of genome editing will be moral imperatives. |
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spelling | pubmed-68201472019-11-13 Moral reasons to edit the human genome: picking up from the Nuffield report Gyngell, Christopher Bowman-Smart, Hilary Savulescu, Julian J Med Ethics Feature Article In July 2018, the Nuffield Council of Bioethics released its long-awaited report on heritable genome editing (HGE). The Nuffield report was notable for finding that HGE could be morally permissible, even in cases of human enhancement. In this paper, we summarise the findings of the Nuffield Council report, critically examine the guiding principles they endorse and suggest ways in which the guiding principles could be strengthened. While we support the approach taken by the Nuffield Council, we argue that detailed consideration of the moral implications of genome editing yields much stronger conclusions than they draw. Rather than being merely ‘morally permissible’, many instances of genome editing will be moral imperatives. BMJ Publishing Group 2019-08 2019-01-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6820147/ /pubmed/30679191 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2018-105084 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Feature Article Gyngell, Christopher Bowman-Smart, Hilary Savulescu, Julian Moral reasons to edit the human genome: picking up from the Nuffield report |
title | Moral reasons to edit the human genome: picking up from the Nuffield report |
title_full | Moral reasons to edit the human genome: picking up from the Nuffield report |
title_fullStr | Moral reasons to edit the human genome: picking up from the Nuffield report |
title_full_unstemmed | Moral reasons to edit the human genome: picking up from the Nuffield report |
title_short | Moral reasons to edit the human genome: picking up from the Nuffield report |
title_sort | moral reasons to edit the human genome: picking up from the nuffield report |
topic | Feature Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6820147/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30679191 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2018-105084 |
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