Presented by: Katie Hasson, PhD
The recent announcement of the birth of gene-edited babies has brought discussion of the ethics and regulation of human germline editing to the forefront of public attention. But the ethical frameworks and arguments prominent in mainstream discussion thus far (including previous reports from the US National Academies and the UK's Nuffield Council, and responses to He Jiankui's experiments) have taken a narrow of view of the ethical concerns about using human germline editing for reproduction. This talk explores what has been left out of recent ethical considerations of human germline editing, and why we must focus on the social and political in discussing - and making consequential decisions about - technologies that have the potential to reshape society and humanity.
Katie Hasson, PhD, is the Program Director on Genetic Justice at the Center for Genetics and Society. Her writing on human genetic and reproductive technologies has been published in The Guardian,OpenGlobalRights, Zócalo Public Square, Social Science and Medicine, and Gender & Society. Previously, she was Assistant Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California.
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