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Progress in genetic and reproductive technology now offers us the possibility of choosing what kinds of children we do and don't have. Should we welcome this power, or should we fear its implications? There is no ethical question more urgent than this: we may be at a turning-point in the history of humanity. The renowned moral philosopher and best-selling author Jonathan Glover shows us how we might try to answer this question, and other provoking and disturbing questions to which it leads. Surely parents owe it to their children to give them the best life they can? Increasingly we are able to reduce the number of babies born with disabilities and disorders. But there is a powerful new challenge to conventional thinking about the desirability of doing so: this comes from the voices of those who have these conditions. They call into question the very definition of disability. How do we justify trying to avoid bringing people like them into being? In 2002 a deaf couple used sperm donated by a friend with hereditary deafness to have a deaf baby: they took the view that deafness is not a disability, but a difference. Starting with the issues raised by this case, Jonathan Glover examines the emotive idea of 'eugenics', and the ethics of attempting to enhance people, for non-medical reasons, by means of genetic choices. Should parents be free, not only to have children free from disabilities, but to choose, for instance, the colour of their eyes or hair? This is no longer a distant prospect, but an existing power which we cannot wish away. What impact will such interventions have, both on the individuals concerned and on society as a whole? Should we try to make general improvements to the genetic make-up of human beings? Is there a central core of human nature with which we must not interfere? This beautifully clear book is written for anyone who cares about the rights and wrongs of parents' choices for their children, anyone who is concerned about our human future. Glover handles these uncomfortable questions in a controversial but always humane and sympathetic manner.

Biologie humaine -- Morale et aspects éthiques --- Biomedical ethics --- Biomedische ethiek --- Biomédecine -- Morale et aspects éthiques --- Children--Diseases--Genetic aspects --- Counseling genetique --- Deontologie [Medische ] --- Deontology [Medical ] --- Déontologie médicale --- Désordres génétiques chez les enfants --- Enfant [Désordres génétiques chez l' ] --- Enfants [Désordres génétiques chez les ] --- Ethics [Medical ] --- Ethiek [Medische ] --- Ethique médicale --- Genetic counseling --- Genetic disorders in children --- Genetische counseling --- Genetische stoornissen bij kinderen --- Kinderen [Genetische stoornissen bij ] --- Medical care -- Moral and ethical aspects --- Medical deontology --- Medical ethics --- Medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects --- Medische deontologie --- Medische ethiek --- Morale et médecine --- Morale médicale --- Médecine -- Innovations -- Morale et aspects éthiques --- Médecine -- Morale et aspects éthiques --- Médecine et morale --- Politique sanitaire -- Morale et aspects éthiques --- Soins médicaux -- Morale et aspects éthiques --- Stoornissen [Genetische ] bij kinderen --- Troubles génétiques chez les enfants --- Éthique clinique --- Abnormalities, Human --- Genetic counseling. --- Genetic disorders in children. --- Medical ethics. --- Reproductive Techniques --- Genetic Engineering --- Preimplantation Diagnosis --- Genetic aspects. --- ethics. --- Ethics. --- Professional ethics. Deontology --- Abnormalities [Human ] --- Genetic aspects

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Psychology --- Psychologie --- Philosophy --- Philosophie --- -Behavioral sciences --- Mental philosophy --- Mind --- Science, Mental --- Human biology --- Soul --- Mental health --- -Philosophy --- -Metafysica van het geestesleven. Philosphy of mind. Artificial intelligence --- -130.3 Metafysica van het geestesleven. Philosphy of mind. Artificial intelligence --- Philosophical anthropology --- Theory of knowledge

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The twentieth century was the most brutal in human history, featuring a litany of shameful events that includes the Holocaust, Hiroshima, the Stalinist era, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda. This book looks at the politics of our times and the roots of human nature to discover why so many atrocities were perpetuated and how we can create a social environment to prevent their recurrence. Jonathan Glover finds similarities in the psychology of those who perpetuate, collaborate in, and are complicit with atrocities, uncovering some disturbing common elements--tribal hatred, blind adherence to ideology, diminished personal responsibility--as well as characteristics unique to each situation. Acknowledging that human nature has a dark and destructive side, he proposes that we encourage the development of a political and personal moral imagination that will compel us to refrain from and protest all acts of cruelty.

History, Modern --- Ethics, Modern --- War --- Humanity --- Atrocities --- Moral and ethical aspects --- History --- Ethics --- Modern history --- World history, Modern --- World history --- Military atrocities --- Cruelty --- War crimes --- War and morals --- History, Modern - 21st century - Moral and ethical aspects --- Ethics, Modern - 21st century --- War - Moral and ethical aspects --- War - History - 20th century --- Humanity - History - 20th century --- Atrocities - History - 20th century

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We have made huge progress in understanding the biology of mental illnesses, but comparatively little in interpreting them at the psychological level. The eminent philosopher Jonathan Glover believes that there is real hope of progress in the human interpretation of disordered minds. The challenge is that the inner worlds of people with psychiatric disorders can seem strange, like alien landscapes, and this strangeness can deter attempts at understanding. Do people with disorders share enough psychology with other people to make interpretation possible? To explore this question, Glover tackles the hard cases-the inner worlds of hospitalized violent criminals, of people with delusions, and of those diagnosed with autism or schizophrenia. Their first-person accounts offer glimpses of inner worlds behind apparently bizarre psychiatric conditions and allow us to begin to learn the "language" used to express psychiatric disturbance. Art by psychiatric patients, or by such complex figures as van Gogh and William Blake, give insight when interpreted from Glover's unique perspective. He also draws on dark chapters in psychiatry's past to show the importance of not medicalizing behavior that merely transgresses social norms. And finally, Glover suggests values, especially those linked with agency and identity, to guide how the boundaries of psychiatry should be drawn. Seamlessly blending philosophy, science, literature, and art, Alien Landscapes? is both a sustained defense of humanistic psychological interpretation and a compelling example of the rich and generous approach to mental life for which it argues.

Psychiatry --- Mental illness --- Psychiatric diagnosis --- Psychodiagnostics --- Decision making. --- Diagnosis. --- Mental Disorders. --- Mentally Ill Persons. --- Mentally Ill --- Mental Patients --- Ill, Mentally --- Mentally Ill Person --- Person, Mentally Ill --- Persons, Mentally Ill --- Mental Disorders --- Commitment of Mentally Ill --- Behavior Disorders --- Diagnosis, Psychiatric --- Mental Disorders, Severe --- Psychiatric Diagnosis --- Mental Illness --- Psychiatric Diseases --- Psychiatric Disorders --- Psychiatric Illness --- Illness, Mental --- Mental Disorder --- Mental Disorder, Severe --- Mental Illnesses --- Psychiatric Disease --- Psychiatric Disorder --- Psychiatric Illnesses --- Severe Mental Disorder --- Severe Mental Disorders --- Mentally Ill Persons

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