Procreative Responsibility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-65208-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Applied Ethics

This book rethinks procreative responsibility considering the continuous development of Assisted Reproductive Technologies. It presents a person-affecting moral argument, highlighting that the potential availability of future Assisted Reproductive Technologies brings out new procreative obligations.

Traditionally, Assisted Reproductive Technologies are understood as practices aimed at extending the procreative freedom of prospective parents. However, some scholars argue that they also give rise to new moral constraints. This book builds on this viewpoint by presenting a person-affecting perspective on the impact of current and future Assisted Reproductive Technologies on procreative responsibility, with a specific focus on reproductive Genome Editing and ectogenesis. The author shows that this perspective is defensible both from a consequences-based person-affecting perspective and from a person-affecting account that considers morally relevant intuitions and attitudes.

Procreative Responsibility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in bioethics and procreative ethics.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Battisti, Davide

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  1. Current and Future Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Prenatal Treatments  2. Responsibility, Procreation, and Reproduction  3. Procreative Beneficence, the Non-Identity Problem, and Impersonal Harm  4. Person-Affecting Morality and the Future of Human Reproduction  5. Is Genome Editing Really Non-Identity-Affecting? A Defense of the Greater Moral Obligation View  6. Responsibility, Genetic Enhancement, and the Child’s Right to an Open Future  7. Beyond Consequences? Attitudes and Intentions in Current and Future Assisted Reproduction  Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Davide Battisti is a postdoctoral researcher in Philosophy of Law and Bioethics at the Department of Law of the University of Bergamo. He also serves as an adjunct professor of Bioethics in the Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs Program at the University of Milan and the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University. He has published several papers on topics such as reproductive ethics, the allocation of scarce healthcare resources, the ethics of science communication, and research ethics. His work has appeared in journals such as Bioethics, the Journal of Medical Ethics, Social Epistemology, and Ethics of Human Research.