Freedom and responsibility in reproductive choice / / edited by J.R. Spencer and Antje du Bois-Pedain

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Disciplina: 176; 344.4104
• Soggetto topico: Artificial insemination, Human - Law and legislation; Human reproduction - Law and legislation; Human reproductive technology - Law and legislation; Human reproductive technology - Moral and ethical aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): Du Bois-PedainAntje; SpencerJohn R., LL.B
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The limits of rights-based discourse / Mary Warnock -- Choosing who: what is wrong with making better children? / Thomas Baldwin -- Disability, enhancement and the harm -benefit continuum / Lisa Bortolotti and John Harris -- Genes, genealogies and paternity : making babies in the twenty-first century / Martin Richards -- The contingency of the 'genetic link' in constructions of kinship and inheritance--an anthropological perspective / Alison Shaw -- Regulating the science and therapeutic application of human embryo research : managing the tension between biomedical creativity and public concern / Martin H. Johnson -- Defining parenthood / Bonnie Steinbock -- Parenting by being : parenting by doing--in search of principles for founding families / Judith Masson -- Birthrights? The rights and obligations associated with the birth of a child / Andrew Bainham -- Reproductive choice : men's freedom and women's responsibility? / Sally Sheldon.
• Sommario/riassunto: "What responsibilities, if any, do we have towards our genetic offspring, before or after birth and perhaps even before creation, merely by virtue of the genetic link? What claims, if any, arise from the mere genetic parental relation? Should society through its legal arrangements allow 'fatherless' or 'motherless' children to be born, as the current law on medically assisted reproduction involving gamete donation in some legal systems does? Does the possibility of establishing genetic parentage with practical certainty necessitate reform of current legal regimes of parenthood? And what limits, if any, should we set on parental procreative choices in the interests of future children, particularly with regard to genetic engineering and related techniques? These are the questions explored in this book by some of the foremost legal, bioethical and biomedical thinkers. Assembled with a view to assisting the reader to reflect critically on the ongoing social experiment which medically assisted reproduction is today, the essays in this collection highlight what are - and what else might in the nearby future become - possible reproductive options and respond to the difficulties we encounter in assessing these practices and possibilities from our traditional ethical vantage points. Contributions by: Andrew Bainham, Thomas Baldwin, Lisa Bortolotti, John Harris, Martin H. Johnson, Judith Masson, Martin Richards, Alison Shaw, Sally Sheldon, Bonnie Steinbock and Mary Warnock."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Titolo autorizzato: Freedom and responsibility in reproductive choice
• ISBN: 1-4725-6362-X; 1-280-80885-3; 9786610808854; 1-84731-160-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450765903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II