Human Flourishing in an Age of Gene Editing
Edited by Erik Parens and Josephine Johnston
Author Information
Erik Parens is Senior Research Scholar at The Hastings Center, where he investigates the ethical implications of using technologies such as psychopharmacology, surgery, and gene editing to shape ourselves and our children. He also investigates how emerging sciences such as genetics and neuroscience shape our understanding of ourselves as persons. He is the author or editor of five books, as well as numerous articles and commentaries for academic journals and general-interest publications. His most recent book is Shaping Our Selves: On Technology, Flourishing and a Habit of Thinking (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Josephine Johnston is Director of Research and a Research Scholar at The Hastings Center. She works on the ethics of emerging biotechnologies, particularly in human reproduction, psychiatry, and genetics. Her scholarly work has appeared in medical, scientific, policy, law, and bioethics journals, including New England Journal of Medicine, Science, Nature, Hastings Center Report, and Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics. She edited, with Thomas H Murray, Trust and Integrity in Biomedical Research: The Case of Financial Conflicts of Interest (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010). She has also written for Stat News, New Republic, Time, Washington Post, and The Scientist.
Contributors:
Gaymon Bennett, Arizona State University, Associate Professor of Religion, Science, and Technology
Michael Burdett, University of Nottingham, UK, Assistant Professor in Christian Theology
Celia Deane-Drummond, University of Notre Dame, Professor of Theology and Director of the Center for Theology, Science, and Human Flourishing
John H. Evans, University of California, San Diego, Tata Chancellor's Chair in Social Sciences, Associate Dean of Social Sciences, and Co-Director of UCSD's Institute for Practical Ethics
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University, a bioethicist and Professor of English
Michael Hauskeller, University of Liverpool, UK, Professor of Philosophy
Daniel M. Haybron, Saint Louis University, US, Theodore R. Vitali C.P. Professor of Philosophy
Sheena Iyengar, Columbia University, New York, S.T. Lee Professor of Business
Emma A. Jane, University of New South Wales, senior lecturer in School of Arts and Media
Bruce Jennings, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, US, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society
Josephine Johnston, The Hastings Center, Research Scholar and Director of Research
Gregory E. Kaebnick, The Hastings Center, Research Scholar and Director of Editorial Department
Richard Kim, Loyola University Chicago, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Tucker Kuman, University of Virginia, US, PhD candidate
Erik Parens, The Hastings Center, Senior Research Scholar and Director of the Initiative in Bioethics and the Humanities
Dorothy Roberts, University of Pennsylvania, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights
Maartje Schermer, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Professor of the Philosophy of Medicine
Jackie Leach Scully, Newcastle University, UK, Professor of Social Ethics and Bioethics and Executive Director of the Policy, Ethics, and Life Sciences (PEALS) Research Center
Robert Sparrow, Monash University, Australia, Professor in the Department of Philosophy
Nicole A. Vincent, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation, and Honorary Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University, Australia
