'Designer babies', instrumentalisation and the child's right to an open future

Philosophical Reflections on Medical Ethics

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 44-69

  Wilkinson, Stephen ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230273931     Document Type: Chapter

References (54)

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9. Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, s. 13(5).
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13. See also A. Campbell (2000) 'Surrogacy, Rights and Duties: A Partial Commentary', Health Care Analysis, 8, pp. 38-9;
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16. Wilkinson (2003) Bodies for Sale, pp. 149-59.
17. BBC News Online, 'Designer Baby Transplant Success', 27 July 2004, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3930927.stm.
18. S. Sheldon and S. Wilkinson (2004) 'Hashmi and Whitaker: An Unjustifiable and Misguided Distinction?, Medical Law Review, 12, pp. 137-63.
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26. BBC News, Mother Chooses Sex of Next Child, 7 January 2003, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2632827.stm.
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30. Teather, 'Lesbian Couple Have Deaf Baby by Choice'.
31. See also M. Spiggs (2002) 'Lesbian Couple Create a Child who is Deaf Like Them', Journal of Medical Ethics, 28 (October), p. 283.
32. Julian Savulescu (2002) 'Deaf Lesbians, "Designer Disability" and the Future of Medicine', BMJ, 325 (10 May), p. 771.
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34. Ronald Dworkin (1993) Life's Dominion: an Argument about Abortion and Euthanasia (London: HarperCollins), p. 148.
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38. Quintavelle is a leading member of the group Comment on Reproductive Ethics, which brought the judicial review action described above.
39. Vivienne Nathanson quoted in BBC News, 'Baby Created to Save Older Sister', 4 October 2000, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1702854.stm.
40. Robert Boyle and Julian Savulescu (2001) 'Ethics of Using Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis to Select a Stem Cell Donor for an Existing Person', BMJ, 323, pp. 1240-3, at p. 1241.
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43. Davis, 'Genetic Dilemmas'.
44. Joel Feinberg (1992) 'The Child's Right to an Open Future', in Joel Feinberg, Freedom and Fulfilment (Princeton: Princeton University Press), pp. 76-97.
45. Feinberg, Freedom and Fulfilment, p. 77.
46. Feinberg, Freedom and Fulfilment, pp. 76-7.
47. Davis, 'Genetic Dilemmas'.
48. Feinberg, Freedom and Fulfilment, p. 81.
49. Claudia Mills (2003) 'The Child's Right to an Open Future?', Journal of Social Philosophy, 34(4), pp. 499-509, at p. 500.
50. Sheldon and Wilkinson, 'Hashmi and Whitaker: an Unjustifiable and Misguided Distinction?', pp. 137-63.
51. J. Harvey (1990) 'Paying Organ Donors', Journal of Medical Ethics, 16, p. 119.
52. Dena Davies (2001) Genetic Dilemmas (New York: Routledge), pp. 64-5.
53. Mills, 'The Child's Right to an Open Future?', p. 500.
54. Julian Savulescu, 'Deaf Lesbians, "Designer Disability" and the Future of Medicine'.