Gene Editing is a technology that is increasingly impacting on society and our lives.  What was hard to do became simple, and with that a host of new possibilities - and ethical issues - were unleashed.

In this dissertation I discuss the context of Gene Editing as a tool, and how it sits with other technologies.  I argue that it's not a complete stand-alone technology, but rather that it completes 'the toolbox' that geneticists have been developing since the first cloning experiments in the 1970s.