Genethics
Moral Issues in the Creation of People
1st Edition
Published on 28. April 2023
294 pages
978-0-520-31348-4 (ISBN)
Description
Unprecedented advances in medicine, genetic engineering, and demographic forecasting raise new questions that strain the categories and assumptions of traditional ethical theories. Heyd's approach resolves many paradoxes in intergenerational justice, while offering a major test case for the profound problems of the limits of ethics and the nature of value. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Playing God
- PART ONE. Paradoxes
- CHAPTER 1. Wrongful Life: A Pure Genesis Problem
- CHAPTER 2. The Failure of Traditional Ethical Theories
- CHAPTER 3. The Meta-ethical Deadlock
- PART TWO. Generocentrism
- CHAPTER 4. Existence
- CHAPTER 5. Numbers
- CHAPTER 6. Identity
- PART THREE. Genethics and the Limits of Ethics
- CHAPTER 7. Empirical Constraints
- CHAPTER 8. Self-Transcendence and Vicarious Immortality
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
