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Strategies or decisions aimed at affecting, in a manner considered to be positive, the genetic heritage of a child in the context of human reproduction are increasingly being accepted in contemporary society. As a result, unnerving similarities between earlier selection ideology so central to the discredited eugenic regimes of the 20th century and those now on offer suggest that a new era of eugenics has dawned. The time is ripe, therefore, for considering and evaluating from an ethical perspective both current and future selection practices. This inter-disciplinary volume blends research from embryology, genetics, philosophy, sociology, psychology, and history. In so doing, it constructs a thorough picture of the procedures emerging from today's reproductive developments, including a rigorous ethical argumentation concerning the possible advantages and risks related to the new eugenics.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Ethical issues & debates

• Full title: Ethics of the New Eugenics
• Author: Christopher Bechtel, Calum Mackellar
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 242
• EAN: 9781782381204
• ISBN: 1782381201
• ID: 04845276
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Weight: 536 g
• Dimensions: 238 × 153 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. March 2014

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