University of California Press Genethics: Moral Issues in the Creation of People

Unprecedented advances in medicine, genetic engineering, and demographic forecasting raise new questions that strain the categories and assumptions of traditional ethical theories. Heyd's approach resolves many paradoxes in intergenerational justice, while offering a major test case for the profound problems of the limits of ethics and the nature of value. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992. From the Inside Flap "The most sustained piece of writing I have yet seen on the foundations of population ethics. . . . A remarkable achievement."&;Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge From the Back Cover "The most sustained piece of writing I have yet seen on the foundations of population ethics. . . . A remarkable achievement."--Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge About the Author David Heyd is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of  Supererogation