9. Ethicists, Science Policy, and Politics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Prologue 1
4. 1. Targeting a Single Gene: Huntington’s Disease 9
5. 2. From Editing a Genome to Altering Inheritance 19
6. 3. Babies by Design 36
7. 4. From “Well” to “Better than Well” 57
8. 5. Ethics in the Interim 76
9. 6. Of Harms and Wrongs 94
10. 7. Slow Science 123
11. 8. Scientists, Science Policy, and Politics 147
12. 9. Ethicists, Science Policy, and Politics 169
13. 10. “All of Us” for “Us All” 188
14. Epilogue: A New Dawn 214
15. Abbreviations 225
16. Glossary 227
17. Notes 233
18. Acknowledgments 267
19. Index 269