Choosing children
Choosing children: genes, disability, and design Jonathan Glover,
Publisher: Oxford ; Clarendon Press, 2006.
ISBN: 019929092X
DDC: 618.920042
LCC: RJ47.3
Edition: (alk. paper)
Summary:
"Surely parents owe it to their children to give them the best life
they can? Increasingly we are able to reduce the number of babies
born with disabilities and disorders. But there is a powerful new
challenge to conventional thinking about the desirability of doing
so: it comes from those who actually have these conditions. They call
into question the very definition of disability; how do we justify
trying to avoid bringing people like them into being?" "Jonathan
Glover also examines the emotive idea of 'eugenics', and the ethics
of attempting to enhance people genetically for non-medical reasons.
Should parents be free to choose, for instance, the colour of their
children's eyes or hair? This is no longer a distant prospect, but an
existing power which we cannot wish away. What impact will such
interventions have, both on the individuals concerned and on society
as a whole? Is there a central core of human nature with which we
must not interfere?" "This book is written for anyone who cares about
the rights and wrongs of parents' choices for their children, indeed
for anyone concerned about the future of humanity."--BOOK JACKET.
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