The Sorting Society

Herausgeber: Skene, Loane; Thompson, Janna

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focuses on the ethical, legal and social issues raised by genetic testing and therapy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9780521689847
• ISBN-10: 0521689848
• Artikelnr.: 24426843

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction Janna Thompson and Loane Skene
2. Genetic testing, an informed choice Agnes Bankier and David Cram
3. Sex selection: sorting sperm as a gateway to the sorting society? Edgar Dahl
4. Cloning to avoid genetic disease Lynn Gillam
5. Procreative beneficence: reasons to not have disabled children Julian Savulescu
6. Reprogenic technologies: balancing parental procreative autonomy and social equity and justice Leslie Cannold
7. Genetic technology and intergenerational justice Janna Thompson
8. Genetic preselection and the moral equality of individuals David Neil
9. Genes, identity, and the 'expressivist critique' Rob Sparrow
10.Overstating the biological: geneticism and essentialism in social cloning and social sex selection Mianna Lotz
11. The sorting society - a legal perspective Loane Skene.