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By Catherine Mills

matters in reproductive ethics, reminiscent of the ability of oldsters to ‘choose children’, current demanding situations to philosophical rules of freedom, accountability and harm. This ebook responds to those demanding situations by means of presenting a brand new framework for considering the ethics of copy that emphasizes the ways in which social norms have an effect on judgements approximately who's born. The booklet presents transparent and thorough discussions of a few of the dominant difficulties in reproductive ethics - human enhancement and the inspiration of the conventional, reproductive liberty and procreative beneficence, the main of damage and discrimination opposed to incapacity - whereas additionally featuring new methods of addressing those. the writer attracts upon the paintings of Michel Foucault, in particular his discussions of biopolitics and norms, and later paintings on ethics, along feminist theorists of embodiment to argue for a brand new bioethics that's conscious of social norms, human vulnerability and the relational context of freedom and accountability. this is often performed via compelling discussions of latest applied sciences and practices, together with the controversy on liberal eugenics and human enhancement, the planned choice of disabilities, PGD and obstetric ultrasound.

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