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Choosing Children - Genes, Disability, and Design (Paperback)
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Choosing Children - Genes, Disability, and Design (Paperback)
Series: Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics
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Progress in genetic and reproductive technology now offers us the
possibility of choosing what kinds of children we do and don't
have. Should we welcome this power, or should we fear its
implications? There is no ethical question more urgent than this:
we may be at a turning-point in the history of humanity. The
renowned moral philosopher and best-selling author Jonathan Glover
shows us how we might try to answer this question, and other
provoking and disturbing questions to which it leads.
Surely parents owe it to their children to give them the best life
they can? Increasingly we are able to reduce the number of babies
born with disabilities and disorders. But there is a powerful new
challenge to conventional thinking about the desirability of doing
so: this comes from the voices of those who have these conditions.
They call into question the very definition of disability. How do
we justify trying to avoid bringing people like them into being?
In 2002 a deaf couple used sperm donated by a friend with
hereditary deafness to have a deaf baby: they took the view that
deafness is not a disability, but a difference. Starting with the
issues raised by this case, Jonathan Glover examines the emotive
idea of "eugenics," and the ethics of attempting to enhance people,
for non-medical reasons, by means of genetic choices. Should
parents be free, not only to have children free from disabilities,
but to choose, for instance, the colour of their eyes or hair? This
is no longer a distant prospect, but an existing power which we
cannot wish away. What impact will such interventions have, both on
the individuals concerned and on society as a whole?
Should we try to make generalimprovements to the genetic make-up
of human beings? Is there a central core of human nature with which
we must not interfere?
This beautifully clear book is written for anyone who cares about
the rights and wrongs of parents' choices for their children,
anyone who is concerned about our human future. Glover handles
these uncomfortable questions in a controversial but always humane
and sympathetic manner.
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