Inmaculada De Melo-Martin

Rethinking Reprogenetics

Enhancing Ethical Analyses of Reprogenetic Technologies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reprogenetic technologies have been embraced by advocates as tools that can create healthier, smarter, more admirable human beings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 142mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780190460204
• ISBN-10: 0190460202
• Artikelnr.: 47868783

Autorenporträt

Inmaculada de Melo-Martín is professor of Medical Ethics at Weill Cornell Medicine. She holds as PhD in Philosophy and an M.S. in Biology. Her research focuses on ethical and epistemological issues related to biomedical sciences and technologies. She has published extensively on those topics in both philosophy and science journals.

Inhaltsangabe

* Chapter 1. Introduction: Challenging Mainstream Defenses of
Reprogenetic Technologies
* Chapter 2. Reprogenetic Technologies: An Overview
* Chapter 3. Procreative Liberty: The Moral Permissibility of
Reprogenetics
* Chapter 4. Conscripted in the Pursuit of Perfection: The Moral
Obligation to Use Reprogenetic Technologies
* Chapter 5. The Illusion of Control: Reprogenetic Technologies and the
Natural Lottery
* Chapter 6. Not of Woman Born: Reprogenetics and the Erasing of Women
* Chapter 7. Different Things Delight Different People: On the
Value-Neutrality of Reprogenetic Technologies
* Chapter 8. Enhancing the Assessment of Reprogenetic Technologies: The
Case of Mitochondrial Replacement