Unprecedented advances in medicine, genetic engineering, and demographic forecasting raise new questions that strain the categories and assumptions of traditional ethical theories. Heyd's approach resolves many paradoxes in intergenerational justice, while offering a major test case for the profound problems of the limits of ethics and the nature of value.
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"This is a more than usually interesting book on a supremely important topic the ethic of creating new people. . . . Heyd believes that the ethics of genesis is a peculiar and radically different branch of ethics with its own special problems. . . . Clever and stimulating." -- John Harris, Times Higher Education Supplement
"[An] important book. . . . Heyd points out that as the human race gains increasing control over the number and identity of future people it loses normative criteria for making genethic decisions. This presents a theoretical challenge to ethics. . . . [The book includes] a very clear and interesting discussion of the difficulties encountered in any attempt to resolve genethical issues within the context of existing ethical frameworks." -- Joanna Pasek, The Philosophical Quarterly --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"[An] important book. . . . Heyd points out that as the human race gains increasing control over the number and identity of future people it loses normative criteria for making genethic decisions. This presents a theoretical challenge to ethics. . . . [The book includes] a very clear and interesting discussion of the difficulties encountered in any attempt to resolve genethical issues within the context of existing ethical frameworks." -- Joanna Pasek, The Philosophical Quarterly --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"The most sustained piece of writing I have yet seen on the foundations of population ethics. . . . A remarkable achievement."--Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge
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