Destruction of Being "Lifted": A Study on Klara and the Sun from the Perspective of Bioethics / 中国医学伦理学

ABSTRACT

Klara and the Sun is the first work published by Kazuo Ishiguro after he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Its publication attracted widespread attention for he turned his attention to the gene-editing technology. By telling the story of Clara, an artificial friend (AF) designed to accompany "lifted" children, the author revealed the ethical problems caused by the application of gene-editing technology to "lifted" children. From the theoretical perspective of bioethics and its basic principles, this paper interpreted the ethical issues of gene-editing technology from three aspects that "lifted" technology, "lifted" technology implementer, and "lifted" technology implementation consequence, and analyzed Kazuo Ishiguro’s technical ethics proposition.