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EPQ - genetics+ medical ethics HELP

Hi! I have just decided onmy title for my epq
"Do current medical ethical frameworks adequately address genetically enhancing cognitive abilities in humans?”
and have no clue how i should stucture my essay how much detail i should add and what i should talk about, and am also wondering if the question is okay or needs to be changed.
Any help would be appreciated

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I'm also doing EPQ and we got a lot of help on choosing a title, as long as you think your question has an answer you can prove in your essay and you have enough research to do that you should be fine, but you also need to be able to define what 'adequate' means in the medical field because that might be subjective, the best thing u can do is talk to ur supervisor though because they'll know the most out of anyone. I don't know anything about medicine but u might also want to narrow it down to the UK or any other country unless a medical ethical framework is like a universal thing idk

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by margimargi
I'm also doing EPQ and we got a lot of help on choosing a title, as long as you think your question has an answer you can prove in your essay and you have enough research to do that you should be fine, but you also need to be able to define what 'adequate' means in the medical field because that might be subjective, the best thing u can do is talk to ur supervisor though because they'll know the most out of anyone. I don't know anything about medicine but u might also want to narrow it down to the UK or any other country unless a medical ethical framework is like a universal thing idk

Thank you for the help i have changed the title to be : “Are traditional ethical principles enough to assess germline editing in human embryos, or are new ethical approaches needed?”
is that better??

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