The sorting society
Subtitle: the ethics of genetic screening and therapy
By: [edited by] Loane Skene, Janna Thompson.
Contributors: Skene, Loane.; Thompson, Janna, 1942-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780521689847
Subjects: Genetic screening -- Moral and ethical aspects; Gene therapy -- Moral and ethical aspects; Genetic Engineering -- ethics; Cloning, Organism -- ethics; Genetic Screening -- ethics; Reproductive Techniques, Assisted -- ethics
Description: The 'sorting society' expresses what many people believe will be the outcome of advances in genetic technology: a society in which many characteristics of children are no longer the result of genetic chance but of deliberate selection. This book focuses on the ethical, legal and social issues raised by genetic testing and therapy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Genetic testing : an informed choice / Agnes Bankier and David Cram; title: Sex selection : sorting sperm as a gateway to the sorting society? / Edgar Dahl; title: Cloning to avoid genetic disease / Lynn Gillam; title: Procreative beneficence : reasons to not have disabled children / Julian Savulescu; title: Reprogenic technologies : balancing parental procreative autonomy and social equity and justice / Leslie Cannold; title: Genetic technology and intergenerational justice / Janna Thompson; title: Genetic preselection and the moral equality of individuals / David Neil; title: Genes, identity, and the "expressivist critique" / Rob Sparrow; title: Overstating the biological : geneticism and essentialism in social cloning and social sex selection / Mianna Lotz; title: The sorting society : a legal perspective / Loane Skene.