GenEthics
Subtitle: technological intervention in human reproduction as a philosophical problem
By: Kurt Bayertz ; translated into English by Sarah L. Kirkby.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Description: Ever since Plato, human reproduction has been a subject for philosophical speculation. The present time is no exception. Quite the contrary: the present technological revolution within the field of human reproduction has provoked among philosophers reflection and ongoing controversies.

In his pioneering book, Kurt Bayertz provides a comprehensive analysis of the philosophical deep structure behind the ongoing controversies. He strikingly relocates some of the central ethical issues concerned with human reproduction and its technological control. The central aim of the book, however, is not to solve the many ethical problems within the field, but to understand the nature of these problems.

Such an understanding remains impossible until we realise that technology does not reduce to external power. Control over human reproduction is perhaps the most impressive example of technology as a part of ourselves. We have to face the conclusion that, by changing technology, we change ourselves.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-332) and indexes.
"Originally published in German as GenEthik by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, Hamburg, 1987"--T.p. verso.