CRISPR people : the science and ethics of editing humans

Summary: "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

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ISBN: 9780262044431
ISBN: 0262044439
ISBN: 9780262543880
ISBN: 0262543885
Physical Description: print
xiii, 380 pages ; 21 cm
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2021]
Copyright: ©2021

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-369) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.