Germ-Line Intervention and our Responsibilities to Future Generations

Foreword; L. Galea. Introduction; E. Agius. Part I: From Laboratory to Germ-Line Therapy. Screening for Genetic Diseases: What Are the Moral Constraints? A. Cuschieri. The Moral Status of the Human Genome; A. Deepandung, W.T. Noonpakdee. Part II: The Concept of Human Nature: Theological and Secular Perspectives. The Zen World and the Mental Genes; K. Inoue. Moral Reasoning in Bioethics and Posterity; S. Privitera. Redesigning the Human Genome: Are There Constraints from Nature? K.Wm. Wildes. Human Nature Genetically Re-engineered: Moral Responsibilities to Future Generations; H.T. Engelhardt, Jr. Part III: Genetic Interventions and the Common Heritage View. Patenting Life: Our Responsibilities to Present and Future Generations; E. Agius. Should We Treat the Human Germ-Line as a Global Human Resource? E.T. Juengst. Part IV: Social Responsibilities of Geneticists Toward Future Generations. Germ-Line Engineering as the Eugenics of the Future; Qiu Renzong. Guardianship by Peer Review in Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology; A.E. Felice. Are We Our Descendants' Keepers? D. Heyd. The Unknowable Effects of Genetic Interventions on Future Generations (Or, Who Guards the Genetic Engineers in Democratic Republics?); S.F. Spicker. Homo Propheticus; U.M. Bonnici. Notes on Contributors. Index.