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- Examines what we owe future persons from both moral and legal perspectives
- Deeply probes particular concerns in areas ranging from the new reproductive technologies to the structure of morality
- Ranges from the practical (is it wrong to bring an impaired child into existence?) to the theoretical (can “bad” acts be “bad for” no one?)
- Is written by the most noted scholars and theorists amongst those working today on matters relating to future persons
- Extends and applies the powerful work Derek Parfit commenced in his brilliant and influential book Reasons and Persons
Part of the book series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine (LIME, volume 35)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Can Bringing a Person into Existence Harm That Person? Can an Act That Harms No One Be Wrong?
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If Bringing a Badly Off Person into Existence is Wrong, is Not Bringing aWell Off Person into Existence Also Wrong?
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Must an Act Worse for People be Worse for a Particular Person?
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Is the Argument to “No Harm Done” Correct? Must an Act that Harms a Person Make that Person Worse Off?
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Is the Morality of Parental Reproductive Choice Special? Can Intentions and Attitudes Make an Act that Harms No One Wrong?
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Is the Person Affecting Approach Objectionable Independent of the Nonidentity Problem?
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About this book
Reviews
From the reviews:
“This volume is intentionally and wholeheartedly a philosophical book dealing with conceptual analysis (a lot of papers address aspects of ‘harm’), the analysis of ethical judgments, meta-ethical questions (the tension between deontology and consequentialism) and the ontology (or semantics) of future and non-existing persons. … this book is highly recommended for everyone interested in the impact of our actions on future people–not for philosophers only.” (Michael Quante, Medicine Health Care & Philosophy, Issue 4, 2010)Editors and Affiliations
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Dept. of Philosophy and Religion, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, USA
Melinda A. Roberts
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The Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University Yeshiva University, Atizapan Estado de México, New York City, USA
David T. Wasserman
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Harming Future Persons
Book Subtitle: Ethics, Genetics and the Nonidentity Problem
Editors: Melinda A. Roberts, David T. Wasserman
Series Title: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5697-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5696-3Published: 31 July 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2604-8Published: 29 November 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5697-0Published: 31 July 2009
Series ISSN: 1567-8008
Series E-ISSN: 2351-955X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 335
Topics: Ethics, Sociology, general, Human Genetics, Constitutional Law, Medical Law, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History