Perfecting or selecting? When ‘kinds of children’ are the objective
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Perfecting or selecting? When ‘kinds of children’ are the objective. / Wahlberg, Ayo.
I: Journal of Marketing Management, Bind 38, Nr. 5-6, 2022, s. 478-482.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Kommentar/debat › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Perfecting or selecting?
T2 - When ‘kinds of children’ are the objective
AU - Wahlberg, Ayo
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - With news of the birth of the world’s first babies following embryo gene editing breaking in November 2018, transhumanist aspirations to biotechnologically augment human capacities seem that much closer to reality. In this commentary, I argue that recent and ongoing biotechnological developments in reproductive and genetic science notwithstanding, we will do well to self-administer sharp doses of humility if we are pitting human ingenuity against the complexities of the human genome and gene regulation. Selective reproduction today remains almost entirely a matter of ‘selecting out’, ‘discarding’ and ‘terminating’ rather than of ‘designing’ or ‘perfecting’.
AB - With news of the birth of the world’s first babies following embryo gene editing breaking in November 2018, transhumanist aspirations to biotechnologically augment human capacities seem that much closer to reality. In this commentary, I argue that recent and ongoing biotechnological developments in reproductive and genetic science notwithstanding, we will do well to self-administer sharp doses of humility if we are pitting human ingenuity against the complexities of the human genome and gene regulation. Selective reproduction today remains almost entirely a matter of ‘selecting out’, ‘discarding’ and ‘terminating’ rather than of ‘designing’ or ‘perfecting’.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Selective reproduction
KW - gene editing
KW - eugenics
KW - gametogenesis
KW - prenatal testing
U2 - 10.1080/0267257X.2020.1862475
DO - 10.1080/0267257X.2020.1862475
M3 - Comment/debate
VL - 38
SP - 478
EP - 482
JO - Journal of Marketing Management
JF - Journal of Marketing Management
SN - 0267-257X
IS - 5-6
ER -
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