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Child versus Childmaker

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Author addresses issues of creating future people and conduct toward future people within a perspective sympathetic to the utilitarian foundations of current social policy theory. Presents an alternative to the total utility view that genuinely takes into account individual well-being, by incorporating the "person-affecting" insight. Read this book if you are interested in normative ethical theory and/or issues surrounding new reproductive technologies.

This book develops a moral theory that provides a potential background for "wrongful life" suits, and a perspective from which to evaluate new reproductive technologies. The writing is sometimes technical, and non-philosophers may find this book tough going. But from now on, anyone interested in these issues will need to read Roberts.

This is not a useful or interesting treatment of the issues it raises. The analysis is weak and focused more on terminological problems than on substantive insights. Cannot recommend it for anyone with an interest in the subject matter.

This book is very thought provoking - presented in a way to make us consider different sides of the questions people face. Right and wrong are not always as clear as one might imagine. Read this book to consider the conflicts people face.

This book consists of nothing but jargon-laden rehashing ofothers' ideas and a few poorly conceived and insignificant accretionsto those ideas. The problems and ideas presented here are notinherently difficult to understand; the author engineeers problems of understanding for the reader with her stilted prose and her focus on abstract academic theorizing. She forgets that the underlying problems are real ones, facing real people, not merely occasions for her to exhibit that she has read about some esoteric concepts in the academic literature.