LeRoy Walters

Joseph P Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Leroy Walters

Julie Gage Palmer

Julie G. Palmer

They start with the current techniques of gene addition, using non-reproductive (somatic) cells in an effort to cure or treat disease. Next they address the technical problems and moral issues facing attempts to prevent disease through genetically modifying early human embryos or sperm and egg cells. These changes would be passed on to future generations. Chapter 4, in many ways the most original part of this volume, confronts the issue of employing genetic means to improve human abilities and appearance.

Julie G. Palmer

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