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Lulu.com Mitochondria by Graeme Holland
Technologies enabling mitochondrial transplantation have the potential to mitigate future suffering; to prevent the inheritance of mitochondrial diseases. When considering the use of germline modification of the type I will consider there are some who claim such modifications do not avoid the impersonal harm/benefits arguments; that depending on the timing of our actions genetic modification may affect numericalidentity or perhaps even personalidentity (narrativeidentity). The aim of this book is to contextualise the process of mitochondria germline modification within a detailed examination of our identity. I consider the potential of affecting identity in the context of both naturally occurring reproductive events and in respect of known identityaffecting events in order to make the claim that the types of affects to either numericalidentity or personalidentity resulting from mitochondria germline modification should not in any sense be considered morally problematic.show more