This collection of essays, with an extended commentary by the editor, is concerned with developments in reproductive technology and the possibilities of genetic engineering. The volume provides a forum for debate between science and society. Leading scientists in the field explain the nature and goals of test tube' reproduction and genetic engineering, and their eugenic implications. Other papers draw out the legal and ethical problems raised by these developments. The ethical dilemmas are discussed both from the point of
view of secular moral philosophy and from a theological perspective. The extended commentary attempts to place these questions in the context of a social ethic, rather than an individualist one, in contrast to the approach adopted by the Warnock Report. Ethics, Reproduction and Genetic Control first appeared in hardback in 1987.
Edited by:
Ruth Chadwick
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd New edition
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 13mm
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780415089791
ISBN 10: 0415089794
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 14 January 1993
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Professional & Vocational
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Primary
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Part 1 Having Children; Chapter 1 Having Children, Ruth F. Chadwick; Chapter 2 Test Tube Babies are Babies, Jerome Lejeune; Chapter 3 Marriage and the Family; Chapter 4 IVF and the Law, Sir David Napley; Chapter 5 In Vitro Fertilisation and the Warnock Report, R. M. Hare; Part 2 The Perfect Baby; Chapter 6 The Perfect Baby, Ruth F. Chadwick; Chapter 7 The Prospect of Designed Genetic Change, Robert L. Sinsheimer; Chapter 8 Human Gene Therapy, W. French Anderson; Chapter 9 Eugenics on the Rise, C. K. Chan; Chapter 10 Should One be Free to Choose the Sex of One’s Child?, Dharma Kumar;
Reviews for Ethics, Reproduction and Genetic Control
`Chadwick performs a real service to the general reader by establishing in the more popular literature the modern alternative reproductive technologies.' - Choice
