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Habermas, Human Agency, and Human Genetic Enhancement

The Grown, the Made, and Responsibility for Actions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2012

PETER HERISSONE-KELLY
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Recent developments in genomic science hold out the tantalizing prospect of soon being able to treat and prevent a wide variety of medical conditions through gene therapy. In time, it may be possible to use similar techniques not simply to combat disease but also to enhance, or improve on, normal human functioning.

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Special Section: Kant, Habermas, and Bioethics
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , April 2012 , pp. 200 - 210
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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