Creation ethics : reproduction, genetics, and quality of life

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Creation ethics : reproduction, genetics, and quality of life

David DeGrazia

Oxford University Press, 2014

  • : pbk

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"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2014"--T.p. verso

Includes index

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内容説明

The ethics of creating - or declining to create - human beings has been addressed in several contexts: debates over abortion and embryo research; literature on "self-creation"; and discussions of procreative rights and responsibilities, genetic engineering, and future generations. Here, for the first time, is a sustained, scholarly analysis of all of these issues - a discussion combining breadth of topics with philosophical depth, imagination with current scientific understanding, argumentative rigor with accessibility. The overarching aim of Creation Ethics is to illuminate a broad array of issues connected with reproduction and genetics, through the lens of moral philosophy. With novel frameworks for understanding prenatal moral status and human identity, and exceptional fairness to those holding different views, David DeGrazia sheds new light on the ethics of abortion and embryo research, genetic enhancement and prenatal genetic interventions, procreation and parenting, and decisions that affect the quality of life of future generations. Along the way, he helpfully introduces personal identity theory and value theory as well as such complex topics as moral status, wrongful life, and the "nonidentity problem." The results include a subjective account of human well-being, a standard for responsible procreation and parenting, and a theoretical bridge between consequentialist and nonconsequentialist ethical theories. The upshot is a synoptic, mostly liberal vision of the ethics of creating human beings.

目次

  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2 : Prenatal Moral Status and Ethics
  • Chapter 3: Creation Through Genetic Enhancement
  • Chapter 4 : Prenatal Genetic Interventions
  • Chapter 5 : Bearing Children in Wrongful Life Cases
  • Chapter 6 : Bearing and Caring for Children with Disadvantage

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