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Erik Parens

Author of Surgically Shaping Children: Technology, Ethics, and the Pursuit of Normality

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Erik Parens is a senior research scholar at The Hastings Center, a visiting professor in the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Sarah Lawrence College, and the coeditor of Wrestling with Behavioral Genetics: Science, Ethics, and Public Conversation, also published by Johns Hopkins. He is show more also editor of Enhancing Human Traits: Ethical and Social Implications and Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights. show less

Works by Erik Parens

Surgically Shaping Children: Technology, Ethics, and the Pursuit of Normality (2006) — Editor — 29 copies

Enhancing Human Traits: Ethical and Social Implications (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics) (1998) 18 copies

Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics) (2000) 17 copies

Wrestling with Behavioral Genetics: Science, Ethics, and Public Conversation (2005) 12 copies

Human Flourishing in an Age of Gene Editing (2019) 9 copies

Shaping Our Selves: On Technology, Flourishing, and a Habit of Thinking (2014) 5 copies

Genetic Differences and Human Identities: On Why Talking about Behavioral Genetics is Important and Difficult 1 copy

Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics) (2000-09-14) (1787) 1 copy

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Surgically Shaping Children: Technology, Ethics, and the Pursuit of Normality (Honorable Mention – Clinical Medicine – 2006)

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