The Ethics of the New Eugenics / / ed. by Calum MacKellar, Christopher Bechtel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• HerausgeberIn: Bechtel, Christopher,; MacKellar, Calum,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; A NOTE ON THE TEXT --; ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS --; INTRODUCTION --; THE HISTORY OF EUGENICS --; GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO EUGENIC PROCEDURES --; GENERAL ETHICAL DISCUSSION --; ARGUMENTS SUPPORTING THE NEW EUGENICS --; ARGUMENTS OPPOSING THE NEW EUGENICS --; CONCLUSION --; APPENDIX I Past and Present Personalities Supporting Eugenic Policies --; APPENDIX II Scottish Council on Human Bioethics Recommendations on Eugenics --; GLOSSARY --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782381211; 9783110998238
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782381211
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Calum MacKellar, Christopher Bechtel.

Strategies or decisions aimed at affecting, in a manner considered to be positive, the genetic heritage of a child in the context of human reproduction are increasingly being accepted in contemporary society. As a result, unnerving similarities between earlier selection ideology so central to the discredited eugenic regimes of the 20th century and those now on offer suggest that a new era of eugenics has dawned. The time is ripe, therefore, for considering and evaluating from an ethical perspective both current and future selection practices. This inter-disciplinary volume blends research from embryology, genetics, philosophy, sociology, psychology, and history. In so doing, it constructs a thorough picture of the procedures emerging from today’s reproductive developments, including a rigorous ethical argumentation concerning the possible advantages and risks related to the new eugenics.