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UNINA9910788532903321 |
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Murphy Timothy F. <1955-> |
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Ethics, sexual orientation, and choices about children / / Timothy F. Murphy |
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Cambridge, MA : , : MIT Press, , 2012 |
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1-283-62983-6 |
0-262-30582-8 |
9786613942289 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (195 p.) |
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Homosexuality - Genetic aspects |
Sexual orientation - Research - Moral and ethical aspects |
Prenatal influences |
Prenatal diagnosis |
Human genetics - Moral and ethical aspects |
Bioethics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The controversy -- The controversy goes mainstream -- A genetic study raises the stake -- Book reports, mostly -- In defense of trait selection -- More debate -- Beyond rights -- Not a few last words. |
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Parents routinely turn to prenatal testing to screen for genetic or chromosomal disorders or to learn their child's sex. What if they could use similar prenatal interventions to learn (or change) their child's sexual orientation? Bioethicists have debated the moral implications of this still-hypothetical possibility for several decades. Some commentators fear that any scientific efforts to understand the origins of homosexuality could mean the end of gay and lesbian people, if parents shy away from having homosexual children. Others defend parents' rights to choose the traits of their children in general and see no reason to treat sexual orientation differently. In this book, Timothy Murphy traces the controversy over prenatal selection of sexual orientation, offering a critical review of the literature and presenting his own argument in favor of parents' reproductive liberty. Arguing against |
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commentators who want to restrict the scientific study of sexual orientation or technologies that emerge from that study, Murphy proposes a defense of parents' right to choose. This, he argues, is the only view that helps protect children from hurtful family environments, that is consistent with the increasing powers of prenatal interventions, and that respects human futures as something other than accidents of the genetic lottery. |
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UNINA9910813457703321 |
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Autore |
Rule John <1944-2011, > |
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Crime, protest, and popular politics in southern England, 1740-1850 / / John Rule and Roger Wells |
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London ; ; Rio Grande, Ohio : , : The Hambledon Press, , 1997 |
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©1997 |
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1-283-20218-2 |
9786613202185 |
0-8264-6228-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (266 p.) |
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Popular culture - England, Southern - History - 18th century |
Protest movements - England, Southern - History - 19th century |
Protest movements - England, Southern - History - 18th century |
Popular culture - England, Southern - History - 19th century |
Crime - England, Southern - History - 18th century |
Crime - England, Southern - History - 19th century |
England, Southern Politics and government |
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Crime, Protest and Radicalism; 2 The Revolt of the South West, 1800-1: A Study in English Popular Protest; 3 The Perfect Wage System? Tributing in the Cornish Mines; 4 The Chartist Mission to Cornwall; 5 Richard Spurr of Truro: Small-Town Radical; 6 Resistance to the New Poor Law in the |
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Rural South; 7 Southern Chartism; 8 Social Crime in the Rural South in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; 9 Crime and Protest in a Country Parish: Burwash, 1790-1850; 10 The Manifold Causes of Rural Crime: Sheep-Stealing in England, c. 1740-1840 |
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Southern England has been studied considerably less than the industrializing north and midlands in the debate on the standard of living in the period up to 1850. Yet it is becoming clear that it was in the south and in the countryside that the greatest poverty and deprivation was to be found. These essays examine responses to the struggle to live. The responses ranged from, at the most extreme, sheep-stealing and incendiarism to joining in food riots in an attempt to impose a ""moral economy"". More sustained protest is to be seen in passive and sometimes active resistance to authority, and in |
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