Engineering genetic injustice.
In their jointly written book, From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice, Allen Buchanan, Dan Brock, Norman Daniels and Daniel Wikler defend 'the development and deployment of genetic intervention technologies..', including genetic enhancements, against charges that they exacerbate injustice. The present paper examines some of their arguments. The first section shows that the authors confuse real societies with just societies. The second shows that without this confusion, their arguments reveal the enormous justice-impairing potential of deploying genetic enhancements in such societies as the United States.
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Peter
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Department of Philosophy, Brookens 445, University of Illinois at Springfield, One University Plaza, Springfield, IL 62703, USA. wenz.peter@uis.edu
D024861:Genetic Enhancement / Q000191:economics / Q000941:ethics*; D015316:Genetic Therapy / Q000941:ethics; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000941:ethics; D006801:Humans; D040841:Resource Allocation / Q000191:economics / Q000941:ethics; D012306:Risk; D012935:Social Justice; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States