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• Title:Defending the genetic supermarket : the law and ethics of selecting the next generation / Colin Gavaghan.
  
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• Author/Creator:Gavaghan, Colin.
  
• Published/Created:London ; New York, NY : Routledge-Cavendish, 2007.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WQ208 .G38 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Human reproductive technology--Moral and ethical aspects.
  Genetic engineering--Moral and ethical aspects.
  Preimplantation genetic diagnosis--Moral and ethical aspects.
  
• Description:vii, 238 p. ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:Biomedical law and ethics library.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-232) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781844720590 (hardback)
  9781844720583 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:1. attack on the genetic supermarket
  2. Autonomy and germinal choice
  3. Children of the genetic supermarket
  4. Impossible alternatives : Derek Parfit and the non-identity principle
  5. Disability, gender and the threat to the already disadvantaged
  6. Saviour siblings and the 'means-ends' imperative
  7. Justice and the genetic supermarket
  8. Defending the genetic supermarket
  Afterword : a frank admission.