Genethics : Moral Issues in the Creation of People / David Heyd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heyd, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics.

Human reproductive technology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Human reproductive technology.

Creation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1992]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Unprecedented advances in medicine, genetic engineering, and demographic forecasting raise new questions that strain the categories and assumptions of traditional ethical theories. Heyd's approach resolves many paradoxes in intergenerational justice, while offering a major test case for the profound problems of the limits of ethics and the nature of value. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Playing God

CHAPTER 1. Wrongful Life: A Pure Genesis Problem

CHAPTER 2. The Failure of Traditional Ethical Theories

CHAPTER 3. The Meta-ethical Deadlock

CHAPTER 4. Existence

CHAPTER 5. Numbers

CHAPTER 6. Identity

CHAPTER 7. Empirical Constraints

CHAPTER 8. Self-Transcendence and Vicarious Immortality

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520313484

0520313488

OCLC:

1149480584