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The Day-to-Day Realities: Commentary on The New Eugenics and Medicalized Reproduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2009

Geoffrey Sher  and
Michael A. Feinman
Geoffrey Sher
Affiliation:
Director of the Pacific Fertility Clinic, San Francisco.
Michael A. Feinman
Affiliation:
Medical Director of the Pacific Fertility Clinic in Westlake, California.
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Physicians have a sacred commitment to dedicate themselves through their art and through science to the improvement of the human condition. They have the solemn responsibility to focus on both the prevention and the cure of disease. The human genome project, a 15-year effort to draw the first detailed map in human DNA, will inevitably lead to the widespread implementation of human-gene therapy for the treatment and prevention of disease. We are on the verge of nothing less than a biomedical revolution, the likes of which have not been encountered before. The human genome project will lead to profound changes in the ability to manipulate genes. It will change the way we are born, how we live, how we die, and how we view ourselves in relation to our destiny. Before us lies a difficult transition.

Type
Special Section: Designs on Life: Choice, Control, and Responsibility in Genetic Manipulation
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , Summer 1995 , pp. 313 - 315
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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