Choosing Tomorrow''s Children - The Ethics of Selective Reproduction

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Wilkinson is Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Centre for Professional Ethics at Keele University. Klappentext To what extent should parents be allowed to use reproductive technologies to determine the characteristics of their future children? Is there something morally wrong with choosing what their sex will be! or with trying to 'screen out' as much disease and disability as possible before birth? Stephen Wilkinson offers answers to such questions. Zusammenfassung 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? Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction: the Ethics of Selective Reproduction 2: Parental Duties and Virtues 3: Selecting for Disability and the Welfare of the Child 4: Choosing One for the Sake of Another 5: Treating Children as Commodities 6: Eugenics and the Expressivist Argument 7: Enhancement 8: Sex Selection ...

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• Authors: Stephen Wilkinson, Stephen (Keele University) Wilkinson, Wilkinson Stephen
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2012
• EAN: 9780199646586
• ISBN: 978-0-19-964658-6
• No. of pages: 274
• Series: Issues in Biomedical Ethics; Issues in Biomedical Ethics
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Partnership, sexuality; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; MEDICAL / Ethics, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, SCIENCE / Ethics, Ethics & moral philosophy, Bioethics, Ethics and moral philosophy, Ethical issues: scientific & technological developments, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct