2nd Edition

Creating Future People The Science and Ethics of Genetic Enhancement

By Jonathan Anomaly Copyright 2024
174 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Creating Future People offers readers a fast-paced primer on how advances in genetics will enable parents to influence the traits of their children, including their children’s intelligence, moral capacities, physical appearance, and immune system. It explains the science of gene editing and embryo selection and motivates the moral questions it raises by thinking about the strategic aspects of... Read more

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Smart People; 2. Good People; 3. Pretty People; 4. Healthy People; 5. Synthetic People; Conclusion; Appendix A The Ultimatum Game; Appendix B The Prisoner’s Dilemma; Appendix C The Public Goods Game; References; Glossary; Index.

Biography

Jonathan Anomaly wrote Creating Future People while he was a visiting professor at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford University. He is currently the academic director of the Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in Quito, Ecuador, and works with a company that offers polygenic embryo screening for physical and mental traits. Prior to this, Anomaly taught at Duke University, UNC Chapel Hill, and the University of Pennsylvania.