Enhanced Beings

Kerry Lynn Macintosh is Professor of Law at Santa Clara University, California, School of Law. She received her B.A. from Pomona College and her J.D. from Stanford Law School. Professor Macintosh is the author of Human Cloning: Four Fallacies and Their Legal Consequences (Cambridge, 2012) and Illegal Beings: Human Clones and the Law (Cambridge, 2005). She has also published articles about infertility, assisted reproductive technologies, and embryonic stem cell research. Professor Macintosh is a member of the American Law Institute, a law reform organization.

• Introduction; Part I. Objections to Human Germline Modification: 1. Therapy and enhancement; 2. Transgressing boundaries; 3. Transforming reproduction into manufacture; 4. Stratifying society; 5. Endangering democracy, society, and the species; Part II. Psychological Origins and Consequences of Objections to Human Germline Modification: 6. Psychological essentialism; 7. Envy; Part III. Human Germline Modification and the Law: 8. Existing laws and regulations; 9. Future laws and regulations; 10. Prohibiting human germline modification harms scientists and science, parents, children, foreigners, and society; Conclusion.

'Kerry Lynn Macintosh's Enhanced Beings: Human Germline Modification and the Law is another timely book by a respected law professor on a cutting-edge issue of our time. Professor Macintosh takes on the standard objections about technology and psychology to germline modification and shows how they are groundless. Her book is especially strong in discussing the legal barriers to germline modification and the harms they might do.' Gregory Pence, Philosophy Chair, and Director of the Early Medical Student Acceptance Program at the University of Alabama, Birmingham