The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 19, Issue 7 (2019)

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Editorials

Editorial
Rational Freedom and Six Mistakes of a Bioconservative
Julian Savulescu
Pages: 1-5
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Target Article

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Yesterday’s Child: How Gene Editing for Enhancement Will Produce Obsolescence—and Why It Matters
Robert Sparrow
Pages: 6-15
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Open Peer Commentaries

Article Commentary
Embracing Human Obsolescence: Implications for the Enhancement Project
John Danaher
Pages: 16-18
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Begetting as Producing: Who Cares?
Inmaculada de Melo-Martín
Pages: 18-20
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Which Enhancement? What Kind of Obsolescence?
Ruth Chadwick
Pages: 20-22
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Tomorrow’s Child: Unlikely to Be Obsolete
Audrey R. Chapman
Pages: 22-23
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Article Commentary
When Better Becomes Worse
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Pages: 24-26
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Some Optimism About Enhancement
Jesse Gray & Moti Gorin
Pages: 26-28
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Article Commentary
Toward Realism About Genetic Enhancement
G. Owen Schaefer
Pages: 28-30
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Article Commentary
Not Out of Date, But Out of Value
Bjorn Hofmann
Pages: 30-32
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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The Empirical Examination of the Social Process of Genetic Enhancement, Objectification, and Maltreatment
John H. Evans
Pages: 32-34
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Could Genetic Enhancement Really Lead to Obsolescence?
Peter Zuk, Kristin M. Kostick & Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz
Pages: 34-36
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Human Self-Understanding
Caroline Harnacke
Pages: 37-38
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Genomic Obsolescence: What Constitutes an Ontological Threat to Human Nature?
Michal Klincewicz & Lily Frank
Pages: 39-40
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Yesterday’s Child, Tomorrow’s Plaintiff: Why We Should Expect an Uptick in Wrongful-Life Suits Following Embryonic Application of Gene-Editing Technologies
Shawna Benston
Pages: 41-43
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Yesterday’s Child, Tomorrow’s Therapy Patient: What Are the Roles of Health and Normalcy in Genetic Enhancement?
Jordan Joseph Wadden
Pages: 43-45
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Germline Gene Editing and Genetic Enhancement: The Value of(Non-)Positional Goods
Robert Ranisch
Pages: 45-47
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Does Obsolescence Matter? The Real Questions of Genetic Enhancement
Nikolai Münch & Norbert W. Paul
Pages: 47-48
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Article Commentary
Obsolescence Is Not a Good Reason to Oppose All Types of Enhancement
Iñigo de Miguel Beriain
Pages: 49-50
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Article Commentary
Obsolescence, Genetic Treatment, and Disability
Christopher A. Riddle & Jeremy Butler
Pages: 51-53
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Article Commentary
Are Radical Genetic Enhancements a Type of Contemporary Edenic Deception?
Michael O. S. Afolabi
Pages: 53-55
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Case Report

Case Report
A Call to Justice in Serving Hospitalized Prisoners
Anita Tarzian
Pages: 56-57
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Case Commentaries

Article Commentary
What Does Ethical Treatment of a Dying Inmate Entail?
Stephanie Stephens
Pages: 58-59
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Navigating the Choppy Waters Between Public Safety and Humane Care of the Prisoner-Patient: The Role of the Ethics Consultant
Laurel J. Lyckholm & Laura A. Shinkunas
Pages: 59-61
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Article Commentary
Shackled at the End of Life: We Can Do Better
Michele DiTomas, Joseph Bick & Brie Williams
Pages: 61-63
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Case Report

Case Report
Minor Patient, Major Decisions: Caring for a Rural Child With Gender Dysphoria
Leah Eisenberg
Pages: 64-65
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Article Commentary
Maximizing Resources: Ensuring Standard of Care for a Transgender Child in a Rural Setting
Daniel H. Reirden & Jacqueline J. Glover
Pages: 66-67
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Providing Puberty Suppression Treatment for Transgender Youth: What Constitutes Competence?
Celia B. Fisher
Pages: 68-69
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Article Commentary
The Case of Seth: To Treat or Not to Treat
Rebecca M. Harris & Joel E. Frader
Pages: 69-71
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Letter to the Editor

Letter
Resisting the Post-Truth Era: Maintaining a Commitment to Science and Social Justice in Bioethics
Beth A. Clark, Alice Virani, Diane Ehrensaft & Johanna Olson-Kennedy
Pages: W1-W3
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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Book Review

Book Review
Review of John McMillan, The Methods of Bioethics: An Essay in Meta-Bioethics
Jonathan Lewis
Pages: W4-W5
Published online: 25 Jun 2019
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