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Choosing Tomorrow's Children: The Ethics of Selective Reproduction: Issues in Biomedical Ethics

Autor Stephen Wilkinson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 feb 2012
To what extent should parents be allowed to use reproductive technologies to determine the characteristics of their future children? And is there something morally wrong with parents who wish to do this? Choosing Tomorrow's Children provides answers to these (and related) questions. In particular, the book looks at issues raised by selective reproduction, the practice of choosing between different possible future persons by selecting or deselecting (for example) embryos, eggs, and sperm. Wilkinson offers answers to questions including the following. Do children have a 'right to an open future' and, if they do, what moral constraints does this place upon selective reproduction? Should parents be allowed to choose their future children's sex? Should we 'screen out' as much disease and disability as possible before birth, or would that be an objectionable form of eugenics? Is it acceptable to create or select a future person in order to provide lifesaving tissue for an existing relative? Is there a moral difference between selecting to avoid disease and selecting to produce an 'enhanced' child? Should we allow deaf parents to use reproductive technologies to ensure that they have a deaf child?
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199646586
ISBN-10: 0199646589
Pagini: 274
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Issues in Biomedical Ethics

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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All in all, this is a tremendously rich and well-argued book. It will be of great interest to philosophers working on the ethics of reproduction and in related areas, as well as an invaluable tool for policymakers on selective reproduction.
[an] interesting book with some very arresting insights and well worth reading, whether you are a graduate student, academic or just interested in the exciting new field of emerging reproductive technologies.

Notă biografică

Stephen Wilkinson is Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Centre for Professional Ethics at Keele University.