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The Ethics of the New Eugenics

Calum MacKellar and Christopher Bechtel, editors, 2014, Berghahn Books (New York and Oxford, 978-1-78238-120-4, 244 pp.)

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Notes

  1. An introductory “Note on the Text” states: “The research on which this book is based was commissioned by the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics. It is the result of the collective work of many individuals at the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics. Initial drafting and subsequent editing was the work of Calum MacKellar and Christopher Bechtel, as agreed to by the Ethics Committee of the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics. They were appointed principal editors by the Council.”

  2. Alison Lapper, focomelic, decided to bring to term a pregnancy in a midst of controversy (see http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/aug/02/alison-lapper-disabled-people-drain-on-society). Her statue by Marc Quinn displayed in Trafalgar Square, London, also made the news in 2005 (http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2005/sep/03/art1).

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Camporesi, S. The Ethics of the New Eugenics . Bioethical Inquiry 12, 353–356 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-015-9623-y

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