The sorting society : the ethics of genetic screening and therapy / edited by Loane Skene and Janna Thompson.

Date:
2008
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Publication/Creation

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Physical description

ix, 167 pages ; 24 cm

Contents

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

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    Medical Collection
    WB60 2008S71
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  • 9780521689847
  • 0521689848