The Sorting Society: The Ethics of Genetic Screening and Therapy

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511545573

The 'sorting society' expresses what many people believe will be the outcome of advances in genetic technology: a society in which many characteristics of children are no longer the result of genetic chance but of deliberate selection. This book focuses on the ethical, legal and social issues raised by this technology. Is the prospect of a sorting society something that we should welcome or deplore? Do concerns about how parents or societies might exercise the choice given to them by genetic technology give us reason to restrain its creation or use, and if so how? Would a sorting society increase the freedom of parents and the well being of children, or would it undermine values that are central to a liberal democratic society? These are questions of the most profound significance, bearing on the world in which our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren will live.

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Frontmatter
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List of contributors
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Preface
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1 - Introduction
pp 1-6
- By Loane Skene, Janna Thompson
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2 - Genetic testing, an informed choice
pp 7-20
- By Agnes Bankier, David Cram
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3 - Sex selection: sorting sperm as a gateway to the sorting society?
pp 21-36
- By Edgar Dahl
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4 - Cloning to avoid genetic disease
pp 37-50
- By Lynn Gillam
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5 - Procreative Beneficence: reasons to not have disabled children
pp 51-68
- By Julian Savulescu
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6 - Reprogenetic technologies: balancing parental procreative autonomy and social equity and justice
pp 69-84
- By Leslie Cannold
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7 - Genetic technology and intergenerational justice
pp 85-98
- By Janna Thompson
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8 - Genetic preselection and the moral equality of individuals
pp 99-110
- By David Neil
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9 - Genes, identity and the ‘expressivist critique’
pp 111-132
- By Rob Sparrow
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10 - Overstating the biological: geneticism and essentialism in social cloning and social sex selection
pp 133-148
- By Mianna Lotz
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11 - The sorting society: a legal perspective
pp 149-158
- By Loane Skene
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Index
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of contributors
pp vii-viii

Preface
pp ix-x

1 - Introduction
pp 1-6

2 - Genetic testing, an informed choice
pp 7-20

3 - Sex selection: sorting sperm as a gateway to the sorting society?
pp 21-36

4 - Cloning to avoid genetic disease
pp 37-50

5 - Procreative Beneficence: reasons to not have disabled children
pp 51-68

6 - Reprogenetic technologies: balancing parental procreative autonomy and social equity and justice
pp 69-84

7 - Genetic technology and intergenerational justice
pp 85-98

8 - Genetic preselection and the moral equality of individuals
pp 99-110

9 - Genes, identity and the ‘expressivist critique’
pp 111-132

10 - Overstating the biological: geneticism and essentialism in social cloning and social sex selection
pp 133-148

11 - The sorting society: a legal perspective
pp 149-158

Index
pp 159-167

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