New reproductive technologies, together with an increasingly richer understanding of human genetics, bring with them great promises to improve the human lot. But the possibilities that they offer of choosing who will be born raise moral concerns that are difficult to make sense of with the help of familiar ethical principles. Are these concerns well-founded, or are they dubious emotional reactions, beyond the pale of reason? This book is a critique of some of the ways in which this and related questions have often been discussed. It is also an attempt to shed new and different light on them...
New reproductive technologies, together with an increasingly richer understanding of human genetics, bring with them great promises to improve the hum...
Medical therapy, research and technology enable us to make our bodies, or parts of them, available to others in an increasing number of ways. This is the case in organ, tissue, egg and sperm donation as well as in surrogate motherhood and clinical research. Bringing together leading scholars working on the ethical, social and cultural aspects of such bodily exchanges, this cutting-edge book develops new ways of understanding them.
Bodily Exchanges, Bioethics and Border Crossing both probes the established giving and selling frameworks for conceptualising bodily exchanges in...
Medical therapy, research and technology enable us to make our bodies, or parts of them, available to others in an increasing number of ways. This ...