Creation Ethics: Reproduction, Genetics, and Quality of Life

by David DeGrazia

Book Overview

The ethics of creating-or declining to create-human beings has been addressed in several contexts: debates over abortion and embryo research; literature on "self-creation"; and discussions of procreative rights and responsibilities, genetic engineering, and future generations. Here, for the first time, is a sustained, scholarly analysis of all of these issues-a discussion combining breadth of topics with philosophical depth, imagination with current...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195389638
• ISBN13: 9780195389630
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"