Genethics: Moral Issues in the Creation of People - Softcover

Heyd, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520089278 ISBN 13: 9780520089273

Verlag: University of California Press, 1994

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Book by Heyd David

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"[An] important book. . . . Heyd points out that as the human race gains increasing control over the number and identity of future people it loses normative criteria for making genethic decisions. This presents a theoretical challenge to ethics. . . . [The book includes] a very clear and interesting discussion of the difficulties encountered in any attempt to resolve genethical issues within the context of existing ethical frameworks."--Joanna Pasek, "The Philosophical Quarterly

Reseña del editor:

Unprecedented advances in medicine, genetic engineering and demographic forecasting raise new questions of traditional ethical theories. Do potential people have rights? Can a child that is born handicapped sue the parents? Have people living in the present any moral obligation to future generations and populations, including the obligation to continue the race? This book is a systematic exposition of moral principles that can guide our decisions concerning the existence, number and identity of future people. David Heyd claims that potential people do not have moral status. Reproductive choices must therefore be guided only by the rational desires and values of those who already exist. Heyd's approach resolves many paradoxes in intergenerational justice, while offering a major test case for the profound problems of the limits of ethics and the nature of value.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0520089278
• ISBN 13: 9780520089273
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 276