Harming Future Persons Ethics, Genetics and the Nonidentity Problem /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Roberts, Melinda A. (Editor), Wasserman, David T. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 35
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Human genetics.; Ethics.; Law > Philosophy.; Law.; Medical laws and legislation.; Constitutional law.; Sociology.; Sociology, general.; Human Genetics.; Constitutional Law.; Medical Law.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.

This collection of essays investigates the obligations we have in respect of future persons, from our own future offspring to distant future generations. Can we harm them? Can we wrong them? Can the fact that our choice brings a worse off person into existence in place of a better off but "noni...