1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910481091503321

Autore

Carletti Angelo <1411-1495.>

Titolo

Summa angelica de casibus conscientiae. Aggiunte di Hieronymus Tornieli [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chivasso, : Jacobinus Suigus, fl. 1484-1499, 1486

Descrizione fisica

Online resource (v.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966795003321

Autore

Wilkinson Stephen <1965->

Titolo

Choosing tomorrow's children : the ethics of selective reproduction / / Stephen Wilkinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press, 2010

ISBN

0191572713

9780191572715

0-19-170658-2

0-19-964658-9

1-282-50191-7

9786612501913

0-19-157271-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 265 pages)

Collana

Issues in biomedical ethics

Disciplina

176

Soggetti

Human reproductive technology - Moral and ethical aspects

Genetic engineering - Moral and ethical aspects

Sex preselection - Moral and ethical aspects

Bioethics

Reproductive Techniques - ethics

Bioethical Issues

Sex Preselection - ethics

Genetic Engineering - ethics

Preimplantation Diagnosis - ethics



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-262) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: The Ethics of Selective Reproduction -- 1.1 Some Cases -- 1.2 What Is Selective Reproduction? -- 1.3 Different Possible Future People -- 1.4 Philosophical Bioethics -- 1.5 Some Assumptions -- 1.6 The Moral Status of the Human Embryo -- 1.7 Outline and Structure -- 2. Parental Duties and Virtues -- 2.1 Unconditional Love -- 2.2 Actual and Prospective Parents -- 2.3 The Virtue of Parental Acceptance -- 2.4 Diversity -- 2.5 The Child's Right to an Open Future -- 2.6 Summary and Conclusions -- 3. Selecting for Disability and the Welfare of the Child -- 3.1 Disability and Quality of Life -- 3.2 Harm and Wrongful Life -- 3.3 Slavery, Abuse, and Birthrights -- 3.4 The Same Number Quality Claim -- 3.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 4. Choosing One for the Sake of Another -- 4.1 The Cost of Care -- 4.2 Saviour Siblings: The Welfare of the Child -- 4.3 Saviour Siblings: Challenging Some Common Assumptions -- 4.4 Summary and Conclusions -- 5. Treating Children as Commodities -- 5.1 What Is Commodification? -- 5.2 Treating as a (Mere) Means -- 5.3 Fungibility -- 5.4 Summary and Conclusions -- 6. Eugenics and the Expressivist Argument -- 6.1 What Is Eugenics? -- 6.2 The Moral Standing of Eugenics -- 6.3 Is the Very Idea of 'Genetic Improvement' a Mistake? -- 6.4 Social Problems Caused by Reducing the Prevalence of Disease and Disability -- 6.5 The Expressivist Argument -- 6.6 Summary and Conclusions -- 7. Enhancement -- 7.1 What Is Enhancement? -- 7.2 The Moral Status of Enhancement -- 7.3 The Goals of Medicine -- 7.4 Positional Goods -- 7.5 Equality -- 7.6 Summary and Conclusions -- 8. Sex Selection -- 8.1 Bioethical Context -- 8.2 Legal-Regulatory Context in the UK -- 8.3 Family Balancing and Population Sex Imbalance -- 8.4 Family Balancing and Sexism -- 8.5 Sexism as a Fundamental Objection to Sex Selection -- 8.6 Population Sex Imbalance, Subgroups, and Social Context -- 8.7 Pressure and Consent -- 8.8 Sending Out the Wrong Message -- 8.9 Innocuous Means of Sex Selection -- 8.10 Summary and Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

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.