The Ethics of the New Eugenics

244 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Strategies or decisions aimed at affecting, in a manner considered to be positive, the genetic heritage of a child in the context of human reproduction are increasingly being accepted in contemporary society. As a result, unnerving similarities between earlier selection ideology so central to the discredited eugenic regimes of the 20th century and those now on offer suggest that a new era of eugenics has dawned. The time is ripe, therefore, for considering and evaluating from an ethical perspective both current and future selection practices. This inter-disciplinary volume blends research from embryology, genetics, philosophy, sociology, psychology, and history. In so doing, it constructs a thorough picture of the procedures emerging from today's reproductive developments, including a rigorous ethical argumentation concerning the possible advantages and risks related to the new eugenics.

• Themen: Medizin Vorklinische Medizin, Grundlagenwissenschaften Genetik, Medizin
• ISBN: 9781782381204
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.03.2014
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: Calum Mackellar, Christopher Bechtel