Shaping future children: Parental rights and societal interests

Journal of Political Philosophy

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 377-398

  Brock, Dan W ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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EID: 29144505004     PISSN: 09638016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9760.2005.00229.x     Document Type: Review

References (37)

1. Garrett Hardin, "The tragedy of the commons." Science, 162 (1968), 1243-8.
2. Daniel Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985).
3. Diane Paul, Controlling Human Heredity: 1865 to the Present (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1995).
4. Allen E. Buchanan, Dan W. Brock, Norman Daniels and Daniel Wikler, From Chance to Choice: Genes and Social Justice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
5. John Robertson, Children of Choice (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994).
6. Gunnar Broberg and Nils Roll-Hansen, Eugenics and the Welfare State: Sterilization in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1996).
7. Buchanan, Brock, Daniels and Wikler, From Chance to Choice, ch. 6.
8. Dan W. Brock, "Funding new reproductive technologies: should they be included in basic benefits packages?" New Ways of Making Babies: The Case of Egg Donation, ed. C. Cohen. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996).
9. Buchanan, Brock, Daniels and Wikler, From Chance to Choice, ch. 5.
10. Buchanan, Brock, Daniels and Wikler, From Chance to Choice, Ibid., eh. 6.
11. James Griffin, Well-Being: Its Meaning, Measurement and Moral Importance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).
12. Dan W. Brock, "What is the moral authority of family members to act as surrogates for incompetent patients?" The Milbank Quarterly, 74 (1997), 599-618.
13. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. State Laws Related to Child Abuse and Neglect http://nccanch.acf.hhs.gov/general/legal/statutes/index.cfm.
14. Joel Feinberg, Harm to Others (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984).
15. Joel Feinberg, "The child's right to an open future," in Feinberg, Freedom and Fulfillment: Philosophical Essays (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992).
16. Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205 (1972).
17. Robert Sparrow, "Defending deaf culture: the case of cochlear implants," Journal of Political Philosophy, forthcoming.
18. I am indebted to Robert Goodin for the examples in this paragraph.
19. H. L. A. Hart, "Legal responsibility and excuses," Punishment and Responsibility: Essays in the Philosophy of Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968).
20. Buchanan, Brock, Daniels, and Wikler, From Chance to Choice, ch. 6.
21. Ruth F. Chadwick, "Cloning," Philosophy, 57 (1982), 201-9;
22. Ruth Macklin, "Splitting embryos on the slippery slope: ethics and public policy," Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 4 (1994), 209-26;
23. John A. Robertson, "The question of human cloning," Hastings Center Report, 24 (1994), 6-14.
24. Buchanan, Brock, Daniels and Wikler, From Chance to Choice, ch. 6;
25. see also my "Preventing genetically transmitted disabilities while respecting persons with disabilities," Quality of Life and Human Difference, ed. D. Wasserman, R. Wachbroit and J. Bickenbach (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
26. I owe this example to Robert Goodin.
27. N. Thomas, "The ethics of population control in Rural China, 1979-92," International Journal of Population Geography, 1 (#1) (1995), 3-18.
28. Therese Hesketh and Wei Xing Zhu, "Health in China: the one child family policy: the good, the bad, and the ugly," British Medical Journal, 314 (1997), 1685.
29. See Gosta Esping-Anderson, Why We Need a Welfare State (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).
30. That this is not only a recent problem is illustrated in Alva Myrdal, Nation and Family: The Swedish Experiment in Democratic family and Population Policy (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1944)
31. and Gunnar Myrdal, Population: A Problem for Democracy, The Godkin Lectures (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1940).
32. htpp://www.australasianbioethics.org/Newslatters/098-2003-10-31.html.
33. Will Kymlicka, Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991).
34. President's Council on Bioethics, Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness. Washington DC: President's Council on Bioethics, 2004;
35. Leon Kass, "Beyond therapy: biotechnology and the pursuit of human improvement," prepared for the President's Council on Bioethics, Washington, DC www.bioethics.gov), 16 January 2003;
36. Michael Sandel, "The case against perfection," The Atlantic, May 2004.
37. Dan W. Brock, "Is Selection of Children Wrong?", unpublished.