The platforming of human embryo editing: prospecting “disease free” futures
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In November 2018, a scientific scandal broke when news emerged that the world’s first gene edited babies had been born in China on the eve of the 2nd International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong. He Jiankui had recruited a total of seven couples who were in need of fertility treatment to participate in an effort to clinically apply human embryo editing with the promise that, if successful, their future children would be protected from HIV. While He Jiankui has since been jailed for illegal medical practice and much has been written about his unethical and flawed “experiment,” in this article we suggest that the Hong Kong summit nevertheless marked the moment when human embryo editing came to be platformed. Human embryo editing brings together a complete set of new reproductive and genetic technologies into a total bio-reproductive platform shaped by socio-technical “disease free” imaginaries.
Original language | English |
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Journal | New Genetics and Society |
Volume | 40 |
Issue number | 4 |
Pages (from-to) | 367-383 |
ISSN | 1463-6778 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
- Faculty of Social Sciences - gene editing, selective reproduction, biomedical platforms, bioethics
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