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Moral suasion, installed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

R. H. Sprinkle
R. H. Sprinkle*
Affiliation:
School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 sprinkle@umd.edu
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Extract

Breeding for virtue is no novelty. Conscientious prospective parents from deepest antiquity have hoped to breed for virtue in mate selection and peri-conceptual regimen. But methods may be changing. Plotting biotechnology's trajectory well beyond today's horizon, Professor Mark Walker asks if virtue is valuable enough to warrant breeding by molecular-genetic means. He presented this question as “Enhancing genetic virtue: A project for twenty-first century humanity?” in the previous issue of POLITICS AND THE LIFE SCIENCES.

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Forum: Genetic virtue, reconsidered
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , March 2010 , pp. 88 - 89
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Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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References

1.Walker, Mark, “Enhancing genetic virtue: A project for twenty-first century humanity?” Politics and the Life Sciences September 2009, 28(2):27–47.Google Scholar
2.Sprinkle, Robert Hunt, Profession of Conscience: The Making and Meaning of Life-Sciences Liberalism (Princeton University Press, 1994), pp. 90–96.Google Scholar