Child versus childmaker : future persons and present duties in ethics and the law / Melinda A. Roberts.
1998
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Author
Title
Child versus childmaker : future persons and present duties in ethics and the law / Melinda A. Roberts.
Published
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [1998]
Copyright
©1998
Call Number
RG133.5 R62 1998
ISBN
084768900X (cloth : alk. paper)
0847689018 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0847689018 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
xv, 235 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)38557300
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1
What Is the Person-Affecting Intuition?
1
1.1The Basic Idea
1
1.2What Matters?
3
1.3What Else Matters?
10
1.4Who Matters?
10
1.5People Who Now Exist: "Existing" People
12
1.6People Who Never Exist: "Merely Possible" People
13
1.7People Who Will But Do Not Yet Exist: "Future" People
14
1.8Broome's Inconsistency Argument
22
1.9The Nonidentity Problem
22
1.10Wrongful Life
29
1.11Human Cloning and Other New Reproductive Technologies
32
Notes
36
2
Is the Person-Affecting Intuition Inconsistent?
45
2.1The Intuition
45
2.2Broome's Teleological Approach
46
2.3Broome's Formulation of the Person-Affecting Intuition
48
2.4Broome's Inconsistency Argument
49
2.5A Problem with Broome's Formulation of the Person-Affecting Intuition
50
2.6A Person-Affecting Sense of "X Is at Least as Good as Y"?
52
2.7Personal Wronging
54
2.8Is Deprived Deprived in C?
65
2.9Two More Cases
66
2.10Objections to Personalism
71
2.11Pain and Sin
78
Notes
78
3
The Nonidentity Problem
87
3.1What Is the Nonidentity Problem?
87
3.2Three Nonidentity Cases
91
3.3A Person-Affecting Account of the Nonidentity Cases
94
3.4A Counterfactual Interpretation of the Nonidentity Problem
101
3.5A Probabilistic Interpretation of the Nonidentity Problem
103
3.6Nonidentity Victims, Fairness, and Personal Wronging
108
3.7The Case of the Fourteen-Year-Old Girl and the Problem of Future Mistakes
110
3.8A Totalist Solution to the Nonidentity Problem
111
3.9A Deontic Solution to the Nonidentity Problem
117
3.10Reproductive Trade-Offs: When Producing the Child Is Bad for Others
119
3.11The Repugnant Conclusion
122
Notes
129
4
Wrongful Life
135
4.1The Value of Life
135
4.2Personalism and the Law of Negligence: Common Ground
137
4.3What Is an Action for Wrongful Life?
141
4.4When Does Life Itself Constitute a Harm?
145
4.5A Person-Affecting Account of Wrongful Life
154
4.6The Problem of the Baseline and the Modal Test of Harm
158
4.7The Problem of Deflected Ill-Being
164
4.8Logical Objections to Wrongful Life
167
Notes
170
5
Human Cloning
179
5.1The New Reproductive Technologies
179
5.2The Question of Harm to Children
181
5.3Human Embryonic Cloning
186
5.4The Critique
190
5.5Are Children Harmed by Cloning?
198
5.6Human Somatic Cloning
203
5.7Cloning and the Constitution
206
5.8Commercial Surrogacy and Other New Technologies
210
Notes
211
Conclusion
217
Bibliography
221
Index of Names and Subjects
227
Index of Principles
231
Index of Graphs
233
About the Author
235