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Child Versus Childmaker investigates a "person-affecting" approach to ethical choice. A form of consequentialism, this approach is intended to capture the idea that agents ought both do the most good that they can and respect each person as distinct from each other. Focusing on cases in which a conflict of interest arises between "childmakers"-parents, infertility specialists, embryologists, and others engaged in the task of bringing new people into existence-and the children they aim to create, the author considers what we today owe those who will come into existence tomorrow. Topics addressed include: what the person-affecting intuition is and how it differs from other forms of consequentialism; the consistency of the person-affecting intuition; the non-identity problem; wrongful life; and human cloning and other new reproductive technologies. This book is intended for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students in philosophy, law and economics and for anyone interested in bioethics, population policy, normative theory, children's rights, constitutional privacy, or family law.

Cloning --- Human reproductive technology --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- waarde van het leven (wrongful life) --- kloneren (klonen, therapeutisch kloneren, reproductief kloneren) --- voortplanting (reproductie) --- ethiek (ethische aspecten) --- valeur de la vie (vie préjudiciable, naissance préjudiciable) --- clonage (clonage thérapeutique, clonage reproductif) --- procréation (reproduction) --- ethique (aspects ethiques) --- Genetic engineering --- Reproduction, Asexual --- Moral and ethical aspects

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Ethics --- Science --- Bioethics --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Europa --- bio-ethiek (medische, biomedische ethiek, bio-ethische aspecten) --- wetenschappelijkheid --- humanisme --- waarde van het leven (wrongful life, arrest Perruche) --- persoon --- genetisch gemodificeerd organisme (GGO) --- Europe --- bioéthique (éthique médicale, biomédicale, aspects bioéthiques) --- scientificité (principe de scientificité) --- valeur de la vie (vie préjudiciable, naissance préjudiciable, arrêt Perruche) --- personne --- organisme génétiquement modifié (OGM) --- Conferences - Meetings --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Ethics and science. --- Morale --- Sciences et morale --- Éthique --- Bioéthique --- 1990 --- -20e siècle --- 20e siècle

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Fetus --- Personality (Law) --- Civil rights --- Physicians --- Children with disabilities --- Abortion --- Legal statuts, laws, etc. --- Malpractice --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Law and legislation --- 17.023.33 --- handicap --- ethiek (ethische aspecten) --- waarde van het leven (wrongful life, arrest Perruche) --- Frankrijk --- Biologische doeleinden. Bio-ethiek; bioethiek. Übermensch. Medische deontologie --- invalidité (handicap) --- ethique (aspects ethiques) --- valeur de la vie (vie préjudiciable, naissance préjudiciable, arrêt Perruche) --- France --- 17.023.33 Biologische doeleinden. Bio-ethiek; bioethiek. Übermensch. Medische deontologie --- Abortion, Induced --- Feticide --- Foeticide --- Induced abortion --- Pregnancy termination --- Termination of pregnancy --- Birth control --- Fetal death --- Obstetrics --- Reproductive rights --- Foetus --- Unborn child --- Embryology --- Reproduction --- Children with special educational needs --- Children with special health care needs --- Children with special needs --- Handicapped children --- Physically handicapped children --- Special needs children --- Exceptional children --- People with disabilities --- Legal status, laws, etc --- Legal statuts, laws, etc --- Surgery --- Perruche, Nicolas --- Fetus - Legal statuts, laws, etc. - France. --- Personality (Law) - France. --- Civil rights - France. --- Physicians - Malpractice - France. --- Children with disabilities - Legal status, laws, etc. - France. --- Abortion - Law and legislation - France.

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This collection of essays investigates the obligations we have in respect of future persons, from our own future offspring to distant future generations. Can we harm them? Can we wrong them? Can the fact that our choice brings a worse off person into existence in place of a better off but "nonidentical" person make that choice wrong? We intuitively think we are obligated to treat future persons in accordance with certain stringent standards—roughly those we think apply to our treatment of existing persons. We think we ought to create better lives for at least some future persons when we can do so without making things worse for too many existing or other future persons. We think it would be wrong to engage in risky behaviors today that will have clearly adverse effects for the children we intend one day to conceive. And we think it would be wrong to act today in a way that would turn the Earth of the future into a miserable place. Each of these intuitive points is, however, challenged by the nonidentity problem. That problem arises from the observation that future persons often owe their very existence to choices that appear to make things worse for those same persons. New reproductive technologies, for example, can be both risky and essential to one person’s coming into existence in place of a "nonidentical" other or no one at all. But so can a myriad of other choices, whether made just prior to conception or centuries before—choices that seem to have nothing to do with procreation but in fact help to determine the timing and manner of conception of any particular future person and thus the identity of that person. Where the person’s life is worth living, it is difficult to see how he or she has been harmed, or made worse off, or wronged, by such an identity-determining choice. We then face the full power of the nonidentity problem: if the choice is not bad for the future person it seems most adversely to affect, then on what basis do we say that choice is wrong? The nonidentity problem has implications for moral theory, population policy, procreative choice, children’s rights, bioethics, environmental ethics, the law and reparations for historical injustices. The contributors to this collection offer new understandings of the nonidentity problem and evaluate an array of proposed solutions to it. Aimed at philosophers, legal scholars, bioethicists and students in all these disciplines, this collection is a thorough exploration of one of the most fascinating and important moral issues of our time.

Ethics. --- Ethics --- Morals --- Psychology, Social --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Life and death, Power over. --- Death, Power over --- Power over life and death --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy. --- Human genetics. --- Law --- Law. --- Medical laws and legislation. --- Constitutional law. --- Sociology. --- Sociology, general. --- Human Genetics. --- Constitutional Law. --- Medical Law. --- Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History. --- Values --- Free will and determinism --- Liberty --- Punishment --- Public health laws. --- Constitutional law --- Constitutional limitations --- Constitutionalism --- Constitutions --- Limitations, Constitutional --- Public law --- Administrative law --- Genetics --- Heredity, Human --- Human biology --- Physical anthropology --- Communicable diseases --- Public health --- Medical laws and legislation --- Interpretation and construction --- Law and legislation --- Law—Philosophy. --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation --- Law, Medical --- Medical personnel --- Medical registration and examination --- Medicine --- Physicians --- Surgeons --- Medical policy --- Medical jurisprudence --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- waarde van het leven (wrongful life, arrest Perruche) --- valeur de la vie (vie préjudiciable, naissance préjudiciable, arrêt Perruche)

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Whether euthanasia or assisted suicide should be legalised is one of the most pressing and profound questions facing legislators, health-care professionals, their patients and indeed all members of society. Regrettably, the debate is too often characterised by rhetoric rather than reason. This book aims to inform the debate by acquainting anyone interested in this vital question with some of the major ethical, legal and clinical and theological issues involved. The essays it contains are authoritative, balanced and readable: authoritative in that they have been commissioned from some of the world's leading experts; balanced in that they reflect divergent viewpoints (including a vigorous debate between two eminent philosophers); and readable in that they should be readily intelligible to the general reader. This accessible, fair and learned collection should enlighten all who wish to be better informed about the debate surrounding this momentous issue.

Euthanasia --- Ethics, Medical --- Euthanasia, Passive --- Suicide, Assisted --- -euthanasie (hulp bij zelfdoding) --- waarde van het leven --- filosofie (filosofische aspecten) --- vegetatieve staat (persistente vegetatieve staat) --- Nederland --- ethiek (ethische aspecten) --- theologie (theologische aspecten) --- Euthanasia, Involuntary --- Involuntary Euthanasia --- Mercy Killing --- Killing, Mercy --- Killings, Mercy --- Mercy Killings --- Euthanasia, Negative --- Negative Euthanasia --- Passive Euthanasia --- Allowing to Die --- Medical Ethics --- Medicine --- Assisted death (Euthanasia) --- Assisted dying (Euthanasia) --- Death, Assisted (Euthanasia) --- Death, Mercy --- Dying, Assisted (Euthanasia) --- Mercy death --- Mercy killing --- Medically Assisted Suicides --- Suicide, Medically Assisted --- Suicides, Medically Assisted --- Assisted Suicide --- Death, Assisted --- Medically Assisted Suicide --- Physician-Assisted Suicide --- Assisted Death --- Assisted Deaths --- Assisted Suicides --- Deaths, Assisted --- Physician Assisted Suicide --- Physician-Assisted Suicides --- Suicide, Physician-Assisted --- Suicides, Assisted --- Suicides, Physician-Assisted --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Law and legislation --- euthanasie (suicide assistée) --- valeur de la vie --- philosophie (aspects philosophiques) --- état végétatif (état végétatif persistant, état neurovégétatif persistant) --- Pays-Bas --- ethique (aspects ethiques) --- théologie (aspects théologiques) --- ethics --- Euthanasie --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Aspect moral --- 603.1 --- ethiek --- euthanasie --- medische ethiek --- recht --- Medische ethiek --- euthanasie (hulp bij zelfdoding) --- Right to Die --- Euthanasia, Active --- Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary --- Resuscitation Orders --- Bioethical Issues --- Professionalism --- Bioethics --- -179.7 --- 614.253.8 --- 343.61 --- Homicide --- Medical ethics --- Assisted suicide --- Right to die --- Natural law --- Criminal law. Criminal procedure --- Professional ethics. Deontology --- Human medicine --- Health Sciences --- General and Others --- Euthanasia - Moral and ethical aspects --- -Moral and ethical aspects