Aleksandr A. Kushnarev

The Principle of Personal Autonomy and Heritable Genome Editing: Is a Deliberate Departure from the Autonomy of the Edited Person Admissible?

Explicit appeals for the protection of individual autonomy in the hereditary editing of the human genome are increasingly being heard in the scientific literature. The author attempts to consider the category of personal autonomy through the prism of philosophy, ethics and law (including the decisions of the European C...