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Futures of Reproduction

Bioethics and Biopolitics

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  • © 2011

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Authors:
  1. Catherine Mills

    1. , Centre for Values, Ethics and Law in Med, University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia

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  • One of the first available monographs to combine reproductive ethics and post-structuralist philosophy, especially of biopolitics
  • Provides clear, insightful discussion of key issues in reproductive ethics, including liberal eugenics, reproductive liberty, value pluralism, the principle of harm and disability
  • Develops an innovative framework that will have a continuing impact on the way that reproductive ethics is done

Part of the book series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine (LIME, volume 49)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Catherine Mills
    Pages 1-10

  3. Normal Life: Liberal Eugenics, Value Pluralism and Normalisation

    • Catherine Mills
    Pages 11-36

  4. Reproductive Autonomy as Self-Making

    • Catherine Mills
    Pages 37-56

  5. The Limits of Reproductive Autonomy: Prenatal Testing, Harm and Disability

    • Catherine Mills
    Pages 57-83

  6. Reproducing Alterity: Ethical Subjectivity and Genetic Screening

    • Catherine Mills
    Pages 85-100

  7. Ultrasound, Embodiment and Abortion

    • Catherine Mills
    Pages 101-121

  8. Final Remarks

    • Catherine Mills
    Pages 123-127

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 129-134
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Issues in reproductive ethics, such as the capacity of parents to ‘choose children’, present challenges to philosophical ideas of freedom, responsibility and harm. This book responds to these challenges by proposing a new framework for thinking about the ethics of reproduction that emphasizes the ways that social norms affect decisions about who is born. The book provides clear and thorough discussions of some of the dominant problems in reproductive ethics - human enhancement and the notion of the normal, reproductive liberty and procreative beneficence, the principle of harm and discrimination against disability - while also proposing new ways of addressing these. The author draws upon the work of Michel Foucault, especially his discussions of biopolitics and norms, and later work on ethics, alongside feminist theorists of embodiment to argue for a new bioethics that is responsive to social norms, human vulnerability and the relational context of freedom and responsibility. This is done through compelling discussions of new technologies and practices, including the debate on liberal eugenics and human enhancement, the deliberate selection of disabilities, PGD and obstetric ultrasound.

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  • , Centre for Values, Ethics and Law in Med, University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia

    Catherine Mills

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