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Creation Ethics - Reproduction, Genetics, and Quality of Life (Paperback)
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Creation Ethics - Reproduction, Genetics, and Quality of Life (Paperback)
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The ethics of creating - or declining to create - human beings has
been addressed in several contexts: debates over abortion and
embryo research; literature on "self-creation"; and discussions of
procreative rights and responsibilities, genetic engineering, and
future generations. Here, for the first time, is a sustained,
scholarly analysis of all of these issues - a discussion combining
breadth of topics with philosophical depth, imagination with
current scientific understanding, argumentative rigor with
accessibility. The overarching aim of Creation Ethics is to
illuminate a broad array of issues connected with reproduction and
genetics, through the lens of moral philosophy. With novel
frameworks for understanding prenatal moral status and human
identity, and exceptional fairness to those holding different
views, David DeGrazia sheds new light on the ethics of abortion and
embryo research, genetic enhancement and prenatal genetic
interventions, procreation and parenting, and decisions that affect
the quality of life of future generations. Along the way, he
helpfully introduces personal identity theory and value theory as
well as such complex topics as moral status, wrongful life, and the
"nonidentity problem." The results include a subjective account of
human well-being, a standard for responsible procreation and
parenting, and a theoretical bridge between consequentialist and
nonconsequentialist ethical theories. The upshot is a synoptic,
mostly liberal vision of the ethics of creating human beings.
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