The limits of rights-based discourse / Mary Warnock -- Choosing who: what is wrong with making better children? / Thomas Baldwin -- Disability, enhancement and the harm -benefit continuum / Lisa Bortolotti and John Harris -- Genes, genealogies and paternity : making babies in the twenty-first century / Martin Richards -- The contingency of the 'genetic link' in constructions of kinship and inheritance--an anthropological perspective / Alison Shaw -- Regulating the science and therapeutic application of human embryo research: managing the tension between biomedical creativity and public concern / Martin H. Johnson -- Defining parenthood / Bonnie Steinbock -- Parenting by being, parenting by doing--in search of principles for founding families / Judith Masson -- Birthrights? The rights and obligations associated with the birth of a child / Andrew Bainham -- Reproductive choice: men's freedom and women's responsibility? / Sally Sheldon
Summary
Assembled with a view to assisting the reader to reflect critically on the social experiment, the essays in this collection highlight what are the possible reproductive options, and respond to the difficulties we encounter in assessing these practices and possibilities, from our traditional ethical vantage points
