Robert Sladek
Biographic Data
| ID | 6728703 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Sladek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Sladek |
| SIGNATURE | SLADEK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill Genome Centre |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2730-1204 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Laypeople's Views on the Narrative Identity and Societal Treatment of Genetically Modified People
Genome editing in human embryos could raise new ethical issues by changing future people's narrative and numerical identity. Most philosophers agree that some genetic modifications would have larger effects on identity than others, but they disagree on what criteria might explain these differences and have not supported their claims experimentally. We recruited 416 Americans through the crowdsourcing website Mechanical Turk. Participants were pre…
Modular Ontologies for Genetically Modified People and their Bioethical Implications
Participants in the long-running bioethical debate over human germline genetic modification (HGGM) tend to imagine future people abstractly and on the basis of conventionalized characteristics familiar from science fiction, such as intelligence, disease resistance and height. In order to distinguish these from scientifically meaningful terms like "phenotype" and "trait," this article proposes the term "persemes" to describe the units of differenc…
Assessing public opinions on the likelihood and permissibility of gene editing through construal level theory
Anticipatory policy for gene editing requires assessing public opinion about this new technology. Although previous surveys have examined respondents’ views on the moral acceptability of various hypothetical uses of CRISPR, they have not considered whether these scenarios are perceived as plausible. Research in construal level theory indicates that participants make different moral judgments about scenarios seen as likely or near and those seen a…
Science fiction authors’ perspectives on human genetic engineering
Participants in the human gene editing debate often consider examples from science fiction but have rarely engaged directly with the science fiction community as stakeholders. To understand how science fiction authors develop and spread their views on gene editing, we created an online questionnaire that was answered by 78 authors, including 71 who had previously written about genetic engineering. When asked which ethical issues science fiction s…
Science fiction authors’ perspectives on human genetic engineering
Participants in the human gene editing debate often consider examples from science fiction but have rarely engaged directly with the science fiction community as stakeholders. To understand how science fiction authors develop and spread their views on gene editing, we created an online questionnaire that was answered by 78 authors, including 71 who had previously written about genetic engineering. When asked which ethical issues science fiction s…
Assessing public opinions on the likelihood and permissibility of gene editing through construal level theory
Anticipatory policy for gene editing requires assessing public opinion about this new technology. Although previous surveys have examined respondents’ views on the moral acceptability of various hypothetical uses of CRISPR, they have not considered whether these scenarios are perceived as plausible. Research in construal level theory indicates that participants make different moral judgments about scenarios seen as likely or near and those seen a…
Science fiction authors’ perspectives on human genetic engineering
Participants in the human gene editing debate often consider examples from science fiction but have rarely engaged directly with the science fiction community as stakeholders. To understand how science fiction authors develop and spread their views on gene editing, we created an online questionnaire that was answered by 78 authors, including 71 who had previously written about genetic engineering. When asked which ethical issues science fiction s…
Modular Ontologies for Genetically Modified People and their Bioethical Implications
Participants in the long-running bioethical debate over human germline genetic modification (HGGM) tend to imagine future people abstractly and on the basis of conventionalized characteristics familiar from science fiction, such as intelligence, disease resistance and height. In order to distinguish these from scientifically meaningful terms like "phenotype" and "trait," this article proposes the term "persemes" to describe the units of differenc…
Laypeople's Views on the Narrative Identity and Societal Treatment of Genetically Modified People
Genome editing in human embryos could raise new ethical issues by changing future people's narrative and numerical identity. Most philosophers agree that some genetic modifications would have larger effects on identity than others, but they disagree on what criteria might explain these differences and have not supported their claims experimentally. We recruited 416 Americans through the crowdsourcing website Mechanical Turk. Participants were pre…
Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (3 works) · Bioethics (2 works) · CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (2 works) · Engineering ethics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Art (1 work) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (1 work) · BRCA gene mutations in cancer (1 work)