Futures of Reproduction - Bioethics and Biopolitics (Hardcover, 2011 ed.)

Issues in reproductive ethics, such as the capacity of parents to 'choose children', present challenges to philosophical ideas of freedom, responsibility and harm. This book responds to these challenges by proposing a new framework for thinking about the ethics of reproduction that emphasizes the ways that social norms affect decisions about who is born. The book provides clear and thorough discussions of some of the dominant problems in reproductive ethics - human enhancement and the notion of the normal, reproductive liberty and procreative beneficence, the principle of harm and discrimination against disability - while also proposing new ways of addressing these. The author draws upon the work of Michel Foucault, especially his discussions of biopolitics and norms, and later work on ethics, alongside feminist theorists of embodiment to argue for a new bioethics that is responsive to social norms, human vulnerability and the relational context of freedom and responsibility. This is done through compelling discussions of new technologies and practices, including the debate on liberal eugenics and human enhancement, the deliberate selection of disabilities, PGD and obstetric ultrasound.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 49
Release date:	May 2011
First published:	2011
Authors:	Catherine Mills
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	134
Edition:	2011 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-9400714267
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical ethics Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Ethical issues & debates > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Promotions
LSN:	9400714262
Barcode:	9789400714267

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