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How safe is safe enough? : obligations to the children of reproductive technology (Record no. 79625)

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control field 0195157079
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0195157079
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International Standard Book Number 9780195157079 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Personal name Peters, Philip G.
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title How safe is safe enough? : obligations to the children of reproductive technology
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2004
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 263 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary, etc. This book offers a comprehensive roadmap for determining when and how to regulate risky reproductive technologies on behalf of future children. First, it provides three benchmarks for determining whether a reproductive practice is harmful to the children it produces. This framework synthesizes and extends past efforts to make sense of our intuitive, but paradoxical, belief that reproductive choices can be both life-giving and harmful. Next, it recommends a process for reconciling the interests of future children with the reproductive liberty of prospective parents. The author rejects a blanket preference for either parental autonomy or child welfare and proposes instead a case-by-case inquiry that takes into account the nature and magnitude of the proposed restrictions on procreative liberty, the risk of harm to future children, and the context in which the issue arises. Finally, he applies this framework to four past and future medical treatments with above average risk, including cloning and genetic engineering. Drawing lessons from these case studies, Peters criticizes the current lack of regulatory oversight and recommends both more extensive pre-market testing and closer post-market monitoring of new reproductive technologies. His moderate pragmatic approach will be widely appreciated.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element CHILD WELFARE
9 (RLIN) 12972
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element ETHICS, MEDICAL
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element ETHICAL THEORY
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