TY - BOOK ID - 8786987 TI - Child versus childmaker : future persons and present duties in ethics and the law. PY - 1998 SN - 0847689018 084768900X PB - Lanham Rowman & Littlefield DB - UniCat KW - Cloning KW - Human reproductive technology KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - waarde van het leven (wrongful life) KW - kloneren (klonen, therapeutisch kloneren, reproductief kloneren) KW - voortplanting (reproductie) KW - ethiek (ethische aspecten) KW - valeur de la vie (vie préjudiciable, naissance préjudiciable) KW - clonage (clonage thérapeutique, clonage reproductif) KW - procréation (reproduction) KW - ethique (aspects ethiques) KW - Genetic engineering KW - Reproduction, Asexual KW - Moral and ethical aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8786987 AB - 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. ER -