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Rethinking Reprogenetics - Enhancing Ethical Analyses of Reprogenetic Technologies (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,816
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Rethinking Reprogenetics - Enhancing Ethical Analyses of Reprogenetic Technologies (Hardcover): Inmaculada De Melo-Martin

Rethinking Reprogenetics - Enhancing Ethical Analyses of Reprogenetic Technologies (Hardcover)

Inmaculada De Melo-Martin

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Reprogenetic technologies, which combine the power of reproductive techniques with the tools of genetic science and technology, promise prospective parents a remarkable degree of control to pick and choose the likely characteristics of their offspring. Not only can they select embryos with or without particular genetically-related diseases and disabilities but also choose embryos with non-disease related traits such as sex. Prominent authors such as Agar, Buchanan, DeGrazia, Green, Harris, Robertson, Savulescu, and Silver have flocked to the banner of reprogenetics. For them, increased reproductive choice and reduced suffering through the elimination of genetic disease and disability are just the first step. They advocate use of these technologies to create beings who enjoy longer and healthier lives, possess greater intellectual capacities, and are capable of more refined emotional experiences. Indeed, Harris and Savulescu in particular take reprogenetic technologies to be so valuable to human beings that they have insisted that their use is not only morally permissible but morally required. Rethinking Reprogenetics challenges this mainstream view with a contextualised, gender-attentive philosophical perspective. De Melo-Martin demonstrates that you do not have to be a Luddite, social conservative, or religious zealot to resist the siren song of reprogenetics. Pointing out the flawed nature of the arguments put forward by the technologies' proponents, Rethinking Reprogenetics reveals the problematic nature of the assumptions underpinning current evaluations of these technologies and offers a framework for a more critical and sceptical assessment.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: December 2016
Authors: Inmaculada De Melo-Martin (Professor of Medical Ethics in Reproductive Medicine)
Dimensions: 212 x 156 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-046020-4
Categories: Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical ethics
Books > Medicine > Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences > Medical genetics
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Ethical issues & debates > General
Books > Medicine > Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences > Human reproduction, growth & development > Reproductive medicine > General
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LSN: 0-19-046020-2
Barcode: 9780190460204

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