Genethics: Moral Issues in the Creation of People

by David Heyd

Overview

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.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520309029
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	09/01/2020
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	294
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

David Heyd is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Supererogation