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(Philosophy and Medicine. Vol. 55.) Edited by Emmanuel Agius and Salvino Busuttil, in collaboration with Tae-Chang Kim and Katsuhiko Yazaki. 174 pp. Dordrecht, the Netherlands, Kluwer Academic, 1998. $120. ISBN 0-7923-4828-1.

This group of 13 very thoughtful essays addresses the difficult question of just how we should think about using — or refrain from using — our radically enhanced abilities in molecular biology and genetic engineering to improve the lot of current and future generations. This question assumes that we could eventually have a well-accepted set of opinions regarding when genetic therapies ought to be deployed and that we are entitled to have a view regarding what future persons would prefer to be like. The question also suggests that we can have well-defined responsibilities to generations that are remote from us . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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