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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910966795003321
• Autore: Wilkinson Stephen <1965->
• 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.