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Choosing tomorrow's children : the ethics of selective reproduction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilkinson, Stephen, 1965-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press, 2010.
Series:Issues in biomedical ethics.
Subjects:
Human reproductive technology > Moral and ethical aspects.
Genetic engineering > Moral and ethical aspects.
Sex preselection > Moral and ethical aspects.
Reproductive Techniques, Assisted > ethics.
Genetic Enhancement > ethics.
Genetic Engineering > ethics.
Preimplantation Diagnosis > ethics.
Reproduction > ethics.
Sex Preselection > ethics.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the ethics of selective reproduction
  • Parental duties and virtues
  • Selecting for disability and the welfare of the child
  • Choosing one for the sake of another
  • Treating children as commodities
  • Eugenics and the expressivist argument
  • Enhancement
  • Sex selection