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Playing God? Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate

2004-01-01

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Technology evolves at a dazzling speed, and nowhere more so than in the field of genetic engineering, where the possibility of directly changing the genes of one's children is quickly becoming a reality. The public is rightly concerned, but interestingly, they have not had much to say about the implications of recent advancements in human genetics. Playing God? asks why and explores the social forces that have led...

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Literature Corpus work: 148a7dae-d1ea-54da-b28a-329f028804f0
DOI: 10.5840/jsce200424129

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