Timothy F. Murphy

Ethics, Sexual Orientation, and Choices about Children

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Parents routinely turn to prenatal testing to screen for genetic or chromosomal disorders or to learn their childs sex. What if they could use similar prenatal interventions to learn (or change) their childs sexual orientation? Bioethicists have debated the moral implications of this still-hypothetical possibility for several decades. Some commentators fear that any scientific efforts to understand the origins of homosexuality could mean the end of gay and lesbian people, if parents shy away from having homosexual children. Others defend parents rights to choose the traits of their children in general and see no reason to treat sexual orientation differently. In this book, Timothy Murphy traces the controversy over prenatal selection of sexual orientation, offering a critical review of the literature and presenting his own argument in favor of parents reproductive liberty.

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Produktdetails

• Basic Bioethics
• Verlag: MIT Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 162mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9780262018050
• ISBN-10: 0262018055
• Artikelnr.: 35709346

Autorenporträt

Timothy F. Murphy is Professor of Philosophy in the Biomedical Sciences at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago. He is the author of Case Studies in Biomedical Research Ethics (MIT Press, 2004), Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research, and other books.