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Informationen zum Autor Loane Skene is Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne! Australia. Janna Thompson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at La Trobe University! Melbourne! Australia. Klappentext Focuses on the ethical, legal and social issues raised by genetic testing and therapy. Zusammenfassung Focuses on the ethical! legal and social issues raised by genetic testing and therapy. This book will be of interest to philosophers! political commentators! clinicians! lawyers! people with genetic conditions and their families - indeed to anyone concerned about one of the major issues of our time. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction Janna Thompson and Loane Skene; 2. Genetic testing, an informed choice Agnes Bankier and David Cram; 3. Sex selection: sorting sperm as a gateway to the sorting society? Edgar Dahl; 4. Cloning to avoid genetic disease Lynn Gillam; 5. Procreative beneficence: reasons to not have disabled children Julian Savulescu; 6. Reprogenic technologies: balancing parental procreative autonomy and social equity and justice Leslie Cannold; 7. Genetic technology and intergenerational justice Janna Thompson; 8. Genetic preselection and the moral equality of individuals David Neil; 9. Genes, identity, and the 'expressivist critique' Rob Sparrow; 10.Overstating the biological: geneticism and essentialism in social cloning and social sex selection Mianna Lotz; 11. The sorting society - a legal perspective Loane Skene.
