- Hardcover: 254 pages
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (August 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 084768900X
- ISBN-13: 978-0847689002
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 517 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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This is a fun book to read; sometimes maddening, sometimes puzzling, but fun. The comparing of cases, the application of principles, and the attention Roberts gives to some of the details hold one's attention. (Ethics )
Roberts' commitment to a complete explanation of assorted moral arguments makes for thoughtful and complex reading. This book engages those who are searching for an in-depth approach to issues regarding the responsibilities of parents and the rights of children in the face of advancing reproductive technology. (The George Washington Law Review )
Roberts' commitment to a complete explanation of assorted moral arguments makes for thoughtful and complex reading. This book engages those who are searching for an in-depth approach to issues regarding the responsibilities of parents and the rights of children in the face of advancing reproductive technology. (The George Washington Law Review )
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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.
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An Insightful Look at Person-Affecting Consequentialism,
By A Customer
This review is from: Child Versus Childmaker: Future Persons and Present Duties in Ethics and the Law (Paperback)
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.
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Weak analysis,
By J. P. Caterwaul (Chicago) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Child Versus Childmaker: Future Persons and Present Duties in Ethics and the Law (Paperback)
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.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Uninteresting, unoriginal, unworthy of serious study,
By A Customer
This review is from: Child Versus Childmaker: Future Persons and Present Duties in Ethics and the Law (Paperback)
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.
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