ATS1263 Study Guide - Final Guide: Gamete, Fetus, Social Inequality
30 Jul 2018
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Week 5: selective reproduction part ii: genetic enhancement. Science moving faster than moral understanding men and women struggle to articulate their unease. Unsafe likely to produce offspring with serious abnormalities. No, implies that absent a designing parent, children are free to choose their characteristics for themselves. Using genetic therapy to reach beyond health (medical means for nonmedical ends like cosmetic surgery) Improve athletic performance must be objectionable for reasons other than fairness (no different to natural differences) Fruit flies with photographic memories / (cid:858)s(cid:373)art(cid:859) (cid:373)i(cid:272)e. Pursuit of (cid:858)(cid:272)og(cid:374)itio(cid:374) e(cid:374)ha(cid:374)(cid:272)ers(cid:859) for hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:271)ei(cid:374)gs alzhei(cid:373)er(cid:859)s a(cid:374)d other serious (cid:373)e(cid:373)or(cid:455) disorders (restoring capacities a person once possessed remedial); would not cure any disease. Purely nonmedical uses danger of creating two classes of human beings may even become subspecies (enhanced and merely natural) Equal access vs aspiring for it in the first place. Since 1980s human growth hormone been approved for children with a hormone deficiency that makes them shorter than average.
