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Commentary: From Liberal Eugenics to Political Biology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2018

NATHAN EMMERICH  and
BERT GORDIJN
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Special Section: Genome Editing: Biomedical and Ethical Perspectives
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , January 2019 , pp. 20 - 25
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Notes

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4. See note 1, Agar 2018.

5. See note 1, Agar 2018.

6. See note 1, Agar 2018, note 3.

7. See note 1, Agar 2018. It is worth noting that Agar’s argument is that if a eugenic intervention is to be ethical, other necessary conditions must be fulfilled as well as the absence of state compulsion. For example, it must be based on sound science.

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15. Agar suddenly introduces PGD into his analysis next to gene editing. As it turns out the paper is really more about PGD than gene editing.

16. See note 1, Agar 2018.

17. See note 1, Agar 2018.

18. See note 1, Agar 2018.

19. See note 1, Agar 2018.

20. See note 1, Agar 2018.

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