Futures of Reproduction Bioethics and Biopolitics /
Issues in reproductive ethics, such as the capacity of parents to ‘choose children’, present challenges to philosophical ideas of freedom, responsibility and harm. This book responds to these challenges by proposing a new framework for thinking about the ethics of reproduction that emphasizes the wa...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1. |
| Series: | International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine,
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction Disability, Gender and Selective Termination Liberal Eugenics What is biopolitics?
- 2. Normal life: liberal eugenics, value pluralism and normalisation Introduction Shaping People: human enhancement and normality What is normalisation? The vitality of social norms Conclusion.- 3. Reproductive autonomy as self-making Introduction The presumptive priority of reproductive liberty Enacting freedom: the ethical practice of reproductive autonomy Conclusion
- 4. The limits of reproductive autonomy: prenatal testing, harm and disability Introduction Disability, harm and the non-identity problem The expressivist critique of prenatal testing: a defense Conclusion
- 5. Reproducing alterity: ethical subjectivity and genetic screening Introduction Genetic selection and ethical self-understanding Natality, corporeality, singularity Screening singularity Conclusion
- 6. Ultrasound, embodiment and abortion Introduction Ultrasound images and the sympathetic imagination The social production of sympathy: biopolitical reproduction The ethical demand of embodied appearance: relationality and responsibility Conclusion.-7. Final Remarks.
