Genetic Morality

By: David Shaw

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Paperback | 10 July 2006

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Cloning, embryo research and genetic modification are three of the most controversial issues of our time. Is it ethical to use cloning as a means of reproduction? Are embryos people? Is there a difference between removing genetic disease and creating «designer babies»? This book will attempt to show that these and other problems are ultimately resolvable, given careful and unbiased application of established ethical principles, many of which underlie common morality. These principles, when applied to the problems of the new genetic technologies, form the basis of a new genetic morality. This book applies established principles of biomedical ethics to the new genetic technologies and examines the ethical implications of reproductive and therapeutic cloning, genetic modification and stem cell research from a deontological and a rule-utilitarian perspective. Finally, it seeks to establish what, if anything, is wrong with each of these practices, and why.

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'Genetic Morality' is a very well written and absorbing book. Arguments abound in it. I shall add it to the reading list of my final-year honours course on Issues in Medical Ethics. (Hugh V. McLachlan, The Philosophical Quarterly)

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