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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. Calum Mackellar Is Director Of Research Of The Scottish Council On Human Bioethics, Edinburgh, And Visiting Professor Of Bioethics At St Mary's University College, London, Uk. Christopher Bechtel Holds A Degree In Philosophy And Is A Research Fellow With The Scottish Council On Human Bioethics, Edi

Author

Calum MacKellar & Christopher Bechtel

Publisher

Berghahn Books

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781782381204

Subjects

Medical, Science, Philosophy