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Title Harming future persons : ethics, genetics and the nonidentity problem / Melinda A. Roberts, David T. Wasserman, editors.

Imprint Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, c2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  170 H228 2009    ---  Available
Description xxxviii, 348 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series International library of ethics, law and the new medicine ; v. 35
International library of ethics, law and the new medicine ; v. 35.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents The intractability of the nonidentity problem / David Heyd -- Rights and the asymmetry between creating good and bad lives / Ingmar Persson -- Asymmetries in the morality of causing people to exist / Jeff McMahan -- Who cares about identity / Nils Holtug -- Do future persons presently have alternate possible identities? / Clark Wolf -- Rule consequentialism and non-identity / Tim Mulgan -- Harming as causing harm / Elizabeth Harman -- Wrongful life and procreative decisions / Bonnie Steinbock -- Harming and procreating / Matthew Hanser -- The nonidentity problem and the two envelope problem: when is one act better for a person than another? / Melinda A. Roberts -- Reproduction, partiality, and the non-identity problem / Hallvard Lillehammer -- Two varieties of "better-for" judgements / Peter Herissone-Kelly -- Harms to future people and procreative intentions / David T. Wasserman -- Can the person affecting restriction solve the problems in population ethics? / Gustaf Arrhenius -- Implications of the nonidentity problem for state regulation of reproductive liberty / Phillip G. Peters -- Reparations for U.S. slavery and justice over time / Seana Valentine Shiffrin.
Subject Ethics.
Ethics.
Added Author Roberts, Melinda A., 1954-
Wasserman, David T.
ISBN 9781402056963 (hbk.)
1402056966 (hbk.)

 
    
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