Wrongful life

Philosophy

Volumn 79, Issue 309, 2004, Pages 403-420

  Archard, David ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; ETHICS; FEMALE; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; PARENT; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH; PHILOSOPHY; PREGNANCY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS; WRONGFUL LIFE;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH;

ABORTION, INDUCED; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PARENTS; PHILOSOPHY; PREGNANCY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; WRONGFUL LIFE;

EID: 27144546767     PISSN: 00318191     EISSN: 1469817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031819104000348     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Joel Feinberg, Harm to Others (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), 99
2. Bonnie Steinbock 'The Logical Case for "Wrongful Life"' Hastings Center Report 16 (April 1986), 19
3. E. Haavi Morriem, 'The Concept of Harm Reconceived: A Different Look at Wrongful Life,' Law and Philosophy 7 (1988), 21
4. Gregory Kavka, 'The Paradox of Future Individuals', Philosophy & Public Affairs 11 (2) 1981, 105
5. For the citation of other relevant and similar thresholds see Morriem, , 'The Concept of Harm Reconceived: A Different Look at Wrongful Life,' 24-5
6. Joel Feinberg, 'Wrongful Life and the Counterfactual Element in Harming', Social Philosophy and Policy 4(1) (1987), 145-78
7. Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984), 357-66
8. John Robertson, Children of Choice: Freedom and the New Reproductive Technologies (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), 152
9. John Harris, 'Wrongful Birth', M. E. Dalton and J. Jackson (eds.) Philosophical Issues in Reproductive Medicine (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990), 165. 12 Ibid, 248 (282 fn. 32)
10. John Harris, Wonderwoman and Superman: The Ethics of Human Biotechnology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), 90
11. Melinda Roberts, Child Versus Childmaker: Future Persons and Present Duties in Ethics and the Law (Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998), 27 and 101
12. Gleitman v. Cosgrove, 227 A. 2d 689, at p. 6982; quoted in Bernard M. Dickens, 'Artificial Reproduction and Child Custody', The Canadian Bar Review, 66 (1987), 55
13. McKay v. Essex Health Authority [1982) ALR 2 771, at 787 and 790
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15. 'The Concept of Harm Reconceived', 23
16. Cynthia Cohen, 'The Morality of Knowingly Conceiving Children With Serious Conditions: An Expanded "Wrongful Life" Standard', N. Fotion and Jan C. Heller (eds.) Contingent Persons: On the Ethics of Deciding Who Will Live, or Not, in the Future (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997), 31-5
17. Children of Choice, 24
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20. Hillel Steiner, An Essay on Rights (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1994), 241-8
21. Nozick, op. cit., 181
22. John A. Robertson, op. cit., Chapter 2
23. Robert Nozick, op. cit, 180-1 (second emphasis added)
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25. Onora O'Neill, 'Begetting, Bearing and Rearing', O. O'Neill and W. Ruddock (eds.), Having Children: Philosophical and Legal Reflections on Parenthood (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979), 25
26. James Woodward, 'The Non-Identity Problem,' Ethics 96 (1986), 804-31
27. Morreim, op. cit., 22
28. Onora O'Neill, Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 60-3
29. Ronald Dworkin, Freedom's Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), 104-5
30. John Harris, 'Rights and Reproductive Choices', John Harris and Soren Holm (eds.) The Future of Human Reproduction: Ethics, Choice and Regulation (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), 35
31. Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics, 61 and 62