The Ethics of Choosing Children [[electronic resource] /] / by Simon Reader

• Autore: Reader Simon
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2017.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (IX, 140 p.)
• Disciplina: 171.7
• Soggetto topico: Bioethics; Ethics; Feminist theory; Humanism; Moral Philosophy; Feminism
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1.Bioethical Burdens of Proof -- 2. Gift and Beneficence -- 3. Creation Lottery and Mother Trouble -- 4. The Maternal Gift of Life -- 5. Natality and Generations -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book takes the contentious issue of designer babies and argues against the liberal eugenic current of bioethics that commends the logic and choice regimes of selective reproduction. Against conceptions of Procreative Beneficence that trade on a disregard for the gifts of maternal bodies, it seeks to recover a thought of maternal giving and a more hospitable ethic of generational beneficence. Exploring themes of responsibility, gift and natality, the book refigures the experience of reproduction as the site of an ethical response to future generations, where refusal to choose one’s children is one virtuous response. The book will appeal to anyone with an interest in reproductive ethics, feminist thought and those seeking principled grounds for resisting the technologies of choosing children.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Ethics of Choosing Children
• ISBN: 3-319-59864-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910255225603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy