Eugenics and the Criticism of Bioethics
This article provides a critical assessment of some aspects of Ann Kerr and Tom Shakespeare's Genetic Politics: from eugenics to genome. In particular, I evaluate their claims: (a) that bioethics is too ‘top down’, involving normative prescriptions, whereas it should instead be ‘bottom up’ and...
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2007
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Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2007, Volume: 10, Issue: 4, Pages: 409-418 |
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