Toward a Small Family Ethic How Overpopulation and Climate Change Are Affecting the Morality of Procreation /

• Main Author: Rieder, Travis N. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Public Health,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Ethics.; Public health.; Medical ethics.; Demography.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.

This thought-provoking treatise argues that current human fertility rates are fueling a public health crisis that is at once local and global. Its analysis and data summarize the ecological costs of having children, presenting ethical dilemmas for prospective parents in an era of competition for sca...

Table of Contents:

• Global Population Crisis
• The Collective Action Problem
• Duties to Possible Children
• Duty Not to (Contribute to) Harm
• Duties of Justice
• Duties of Rescue
• Demandingness, Integrity and Morality
• Duty and Intimacy
• Conclusion.