The new genetics: promise or threat to children?
What will treating children as consumer artefacts, to be changed genetically at parental or medical whim, do to our understanding of human existence, of human identity, or of intergenerational obligations? These issues are explored in a paper based on a lecture given recently at a New Zealand conference.
Alderson
Priscilla
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Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London
D002648:Child; D032821:Commodification; D033041:Embryo Research / Q000941:ethics; D005053:Eugenics; D005818:Genetic Engineering / Q000941:ethics*; D006801:Humans; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011639:Public Opinion