Human Genetic Selection and Enhancement
Parental Perspectives and Law
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Beschreibung
The book analyses moral and legal problems of assisted reproduction providing a pluralistic approach which combines principles of procreative beneficence, procreative nonmaleficence, reproductive autonomy and rationality with the meaning and nature of the parent-child relationship as the main criterion of moral assessment.
Among all human practices, procreation seems the most paradoxical. It starts as a fully personal choice and ends with the creation of a new subject of rights and responsibilities. Advances in reproductive genetics pose new ethical and legal questions. They are expected to prevent the transmission of genetic diseases to progeny and also to improve genetically-endowed mental and physical attributes. Genetic selection and enhancement may affect a child’s identity, as well as the parent-child relationship. The authors are committed to a pluralistic approach that captures all aspects of this relationship in terms of moral virtues and principles. They elucidate that most of the conflicts between parental preferences and a child’s rights could be resolved with reference to the meaning and nature of procreation.
Autor*in
Marta Soniewicka
Themen in »Human Genetic Selection and Enhancement«
Assisted reproduction Baum Enhancement Franzini Gałecki Genetic Genetic selection Human Human enhancement Lewandowski Łukasz Marta Parental Perspectives Procreative autonomy