Choosing Children Genes, Disability, and Design

Name: Choosing Children Genes, Disability, and Design
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ISBN: 9780199238491

ISBN-10: 0199238499

ISBN-13: 9780199238491

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jonathan Glover

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Genetic and reproductive technology now offers us the possibility of choosing what kinds of children we do and don't have. Should we welcome this power, or should we fear its implications? In this stimulating volume, the renowned moral philosopher and best-selling author Jonathan Glover suggests how we should try to deal with this urgent problem. As Glover shows, we are now able to reduce the number of babies born with disabilities and disorders. But there is a powerful challenge to conventional thinking about the desirability of doing so: this comes from those who have these conditions, such as Down's Syndrome. They call into question the very definition of disability and ask how we…

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List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/25/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 5.31" wide x 7.99" long x 0.38" tall
Weight: 0.330

Jonathan Glover is director of the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics at King's College, London.



Introduction



Disability and Genetic Choice


Disability and Human Flourishing


Eugenics?



Parental Choice and What We Owe to Our Children


The Boundaries of Parental Choice


Two Dimensions of Ethics


What do We Owe to Our Children? A Decent Chance of a Good Life


What do We Owe to Our Children? Respect for Identity and Autonomy



Human Values and Genetic Design


The Genetic Supermarket, Inequality, and Entrapment


Should We Defend a Central Core of Human Nature?


The Further Future