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9780521689847

The Sorting Society: The Ethics of Genetic Screening and Therapy

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    9780521689847

  • ISBN10:

    0521689848

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-09-29
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The 'sorting society' expresses what many people believe will be the outcome of advances in genetic technology: a society in which many characteristics of children are no longer the result of genetic chance but of deliberate selection. This book focuses on the ethical, legal and social issues raised by this technology. Is the prospect of a sorting society something that we should welcome or deplore? Do concerns about how parents or societies might exercise the choice given to them by genetic technology give us reason to restrain its creation or use, and if so how? Would a sorting society increase the freedom of parents and the well being of children, or would it undermine values that are central to a liberal democratic society? These are questions of the most profound significance, bearing on the world in which our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren will live.

Table of Contents

List of contributorsp. vii
Prefacep. ix
Introductionp. 1
Genetic testing, an informed choicep. 7
Sex selection: sorting sperm as a gateway to the sorting society?p. 21
Cloning to avoid genetic diseasep. 37
Procreative Beneficence: reasons to not have disabled childrenp. 51
Reprogenetic technologies: balancing parental procreative autonomy and social equity and justicep. 69
Genetic technology and intergenerational justicep. 85
Genetic preselection and the moral equality of individualsp. 99
Genes, identity and the 'expressivist critique'p. 111
Overstating the biological: geneticism and essentialism in social cloning and social sex selectionp. 133
The sorting society: a legal perspectivep. 149
Indexp. 159
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