@inbook{10.7864/j.ctt6wpdhr.14, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt6wpdhr.14}, abstract = {Imagine a future in which any person, man or woman, could engineer a child as a genetic replica of himself or herself. Or in which a child could be the biological fusion of the genes of two men or two women. Or in which all individuals could know, with reasonable certainty, which diseases they would suffer in the months, years, or even decades ahead. Would this new genetic age constitute a better world, or a deformed one? The triumph of modern civilization, or the realization of modernity’s dark side?With a subject as large and as profound as modern genetics,}, author = {ERIC COHEN and ROBERT P. GEORGE}, booktitle = {Constitution 3.0: Freedom and Technological Change}, pages = {177--193}, publisher = {Brookings Institution Press}, title = {The Problems and Possibilities of Modern Genetics: A Paradigm for Social, Ethical, and Political Analysis}, year = {2011} }