Choosing Tomorrow's Children

The Ethics of Selective Reproduction
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-964658-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 421 g

Reihe: Issues in Biomedical Ethics

One of the hottest topics in bioethics
Stephen Wilkinson is a leading authority on reproductive ethics
A compelling analysis of some of today's most contentious issues
Provides an ethical analysis of recent legal and technological developments

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?

Zielgruppe

Advanced students and scholars of ethics, health policy, and medical law

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilkinson, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Bioethik, Tierethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Bioethik, Tierethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Medizinische Ethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinrecht, Gesundheitsrecht
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Reproduktionsmedizin

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

Über Autor(innen)

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

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