Title Designing life? : genetics, procreation and ethics / edited by Maureen Junker-Kenny

Published Aldershot ; Brookfield, [Vt.] USA : Ashgate, [1999] ©1999

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Description v, 160 pages ; 23 cm Series Avebury series in philosophy Avebury series in philosophy. Contents Introduction / Maureen Junker-Kenny -- 1. Bioethics, Biopolitics, Theology / Dietmar Mieth -- 2. The Failure of 'Rights Talk' in the Field of Bioethics: The European Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine / Neville Cox -- 3. The Machine in Man / David McConnell -- 4. Designing Life: The Role of Inheritance / Dan Bradley -- 5. What Makes a Person a Person? The Limits and Limitations of Genetics / Sheila Greene -- 6. Crisis Pregnancies in the Age of Human Genetic Diagnosis: Women's Right to Self-determined Pregnancies and the Right of the 'Other' / Helga Kuhlmann -- 7. Ethical Reflections of Genetic Counselling in Prenatal Diagnosis / Hille Haker -- 8. Embryos in vitro, Personhood, and Rights / Maureen Junker-Kenny Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Subject Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects. Medical genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects. Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects. Author Junker-Kenny, Maureen. LC no. 99072338 ISBN 184014890X

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