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The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering
If genetic engineering could make our children and ourselves better, what would be wrong with using it to enhance rather than heal?
At a glance
- Author
- Michael J. Sandel
Why read it
- You will see what the drive to master nature costs us, and why treating children and life as a gift still matters
- You will be able to tell healing from enhancing, and explain why medicine is not an act of hubris
- You will weigh how a person who opposes designer children can still defend embryonic stem cell research
Who it is for
- A prospective parent weighing genetic screening and embryo selection
- A sports fan uneasy about doping and bionic athletes
- A voter deciding what to think about stem cell research funding
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