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Biologically Modified Justice
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Artikel-Nr:
9781107568518
Veröffentl:
2016
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
19.05.2016
Seiten:
298
Autor:
Colin Farrelly
Gewicht:
435 g
Format:
229x152x16 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Colin Farrelly is a Queen's National Scholar at Queen's University, Ontario. He has published articles in political science, philosophy, law, medicine and science, and his articles have appeared in journals as varied as the British Medical Journal, Political Studies, Biogerontology, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Law and Philosophy and Rejuvenation Research. His other books include Justice, Democracy and Reasonable Agreement (2007), Virtue Jurisprudence (co-edited with Lawrence Solum, 2007) and An Introduction to Contemporary Political Theory (2003).
A novel account of distributive justice which takes advances in the biomedical sciences and global aging seriously.
Introduction; 1. The genetic revolution; Part I. The Duty to Aid in an Aging World: 2. Empirical ethics and Singer's principle of preventing bad occurrences; 3. The duty to extend the biological warranty period; 4. Equality and the duty to retard human aging; 5. Framing the inborn aging process and longevity science; Part II. Genetic Justice: 6. Science and justice; 7. Genetic justice and the limitations of formulating distributive 'ideals'; 8. Normative theorizing about genetics: a response to Loi; Part III. Patents, Reproductive Freedom and Patriarchy: 9. Gene patents and justice; 10. PGD and reproductive freedom; 11. Historical materialism and patriarchy; Conclusion.