Designing life? : genetics, procreation and ethics
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Designing life? : genetics, procreation and ethics
（Avebury series in philosophy）
Ashgate, c1999
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This text sets out to examine the implications of the power to design life which the application of genetics to reproductive biology has brought about. It aims to create a dialogue between human genetics and psychology, law, philosophical and theological ethics. The text explores the contribution of modern genetics to human self-understanding and health care, genetic and psychological factors in shaping personal identity, cloning, changes in the concept of parenthood, the moral status of the human embryo and the legal and political issues from biotechnology.
Table of Contents
- Bioethics, biopolitics, theology, Dietmar Mieth
- the failure of "rights talk" in the field of bioethics - the European Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, Neville Cox
- the machine in man, David McConnell
- designing life - the role of inheritance, Dan Bradley
- what makes a person a person? the limits and limitations of genetics, Sheila Greene
- crisis pregnancies in the age of human genetic diagnosis - women's right to self-determined pregnancies and the right of the "other", Helga Kuhlmann
- ethical reflections of genetic counselling in prenatal diagnosis, Hille Haker
- embryos in vitro, personhood and rights, Maureen Junker-Kenny.
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