Anticipatory gaps challenge the public governance of heritable human genome editing
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- Jon Rueda, Seppe Segers (UGent) , Jeroen Hopster, Karolina Kudlek, Belén Liedo, Samuela Marchiori and John Danaher
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- Considering public moral attitudes is a hallmark of the anticipatory governance of emerging biotechnologies, such as heritable human genome editing. However, such anticipatory governance often overlooks that future morality is open to change and that future generations may perform different moral assessments on the very biotechnologies we are trying to govern in the present. In this article, we identify an ‘anticipatory gap’ that has not been sufficiently addressed in the discussion on the public governance of heritable genome editing, namely, uncertainty about the moral visions of future generations about the emerging applications that we are currently attempting to govern now. This paper motivates the relevance of this anticipatory gap, identifying the challenges it generates and offering various recommendations so that moral uncertainty does not lead to governance paralysis with regard to human germline genome editing.
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- Genetic Enhancement, Genetic Engineering, Public Policy, Ethics, Morals, ENGAGEMENT, ATTITUDES, FUTURE, LIMITS, VIEWS, NEED
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01J6H3STN89R4W3FM9EW0TFDMJ
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- Rueda, Jon, et al. “Anticipatory Gaps Challenge the Public Governance of Heritable Human Genome Editing.” JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS, vol. 51, no. 5, 2025, pp. 317–21, doi:10.1136/jme-2023-109801.
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- Rueda, J., Segers, S., Hopster, J., Kudlek, K., Liedo, B., Marchiori, S., & Danaher, J. (2025). Anticipatory gaps challenge the public governance of heritable human genome editing. JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS, 51(5), 317–321. https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2023-109801
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- Rueda, Jon, Seppe Segers, Jeroen Hopster, Karolina Kudlek, Belén Liedo, Samuela Marchiori, and John Danaher. 2025. “Anticipatory Gaps Challenge the Public Governance of Heritable Human Genome Editing.” JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS 51 (5): 317–21. https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2023-109801.
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- Rueda, Jon, Seppe Segers, Jeroen Hopster, Karolina Kudlek, Belén Liedo, Samuela Marchiori, and John Danaher. 2025. “Anticipatory Gaps Challenge the Public Governance of Heritable Human Genome Editing.” JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS 51 (5): 317–321. doi:10.1136/jme-2023-109801.
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- 1.Rueda J, Segers S, Hopster J, Kudlek K, Liedo B, Marchiori S, et al. Anticipatory gaps challenge the public governance of heritable human genome editing. JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS. 2025;51(5):317–21.
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- [1]J. Rueda et al., “Anticipatory gaps challenge the public governance of heritable human genome editing,” JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS, vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 317–321, 2025.
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