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Modifying Our Genes: Theology, Science and “Playing God”
Modifying Our Genes: Theology, Science and “Playing God”
Alexander Massmann and Keith R. Fox
SCM Press, 2021, 151pp., pbk, £25
This is a topical and relevant book and, if you have not caught up with this important debate about the ethics of attempting to change the genetic inheritance of an embryo and then implanting it into a womb, this is a very useful and reliable introduction. There are some strong medical reasons for wanting to change the genes of children in families with a serious risk of a devastating genetic condition. New techniques of gene editing make this possible and, indeed, work well on plants. Yet they raise what I believe to be insurmountable problems when they are regarded as techniques suitable for human embryos. This accessible and well-informed book shows why this is so.
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