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The ethics of creating-or declining to create-human beings has been addressed in several contexts: debates over abortion and embryo research; literature on "self-creation"; and discussions of procreative rights and responsibilities, genetic engineering, and future generations. Here, for the first time, is a sustained, scholarly analysis of all of these issues -- a discussion combining breadth of topics with philosophical depth, imagination with current scientific understanding, argumentative rigor with accessibility.

'Creation Ethics' illuminates an array of issues in 'reprogenetics' through the lens of moral philosophy. With novel frameworks for understanding prenatal moral status and human identity, David DeGrazia tackles the ethics of abortion and embryo research, genetic enhancement and prenatal genetic interventions, and much more

Human persons: numerical identity and essence -- Human persons: narrative identity and self-creation -- Identity, what we are, and the definition of death -- Advance directives, dementia, and the someone else problem -- Enhancement technologies and self-creation -- Prenatal identity: genetic interventions, reproductive choices.

This book distinguishes itself from much of the polemical literature on these issues by offering the most judicious and well-balanced account yet available of animals' moral standing, and related questions concerning their minds and welfare. Transcending jejune debates focused on utilitarianism versus rights, the book offers a fresh methodological approach with specific and constructive conclusions about our treatment of animals. David DeGrazia provides the most thorough discussion yet of whether equal consideration should be extended to animals' interests, and examines the issues of animal minds and animal well-being with an unparalleled combination of philosophical rigor and empirical documentation. His book is an important contribution to the field of animal ethics and will be read with special interest by all philosophers teaching such courses, as well as biologists, those professionally involved with animals, and general readers concerned about animal welfare

Mikhalevich & Powell (M&P) set up the basic criteria for according moral status equitably, including the capacity for affect. They argue persuasively against assuming that all invertebrates are insentient and hence ineligible for moral consideration. In addition to the relatively clear case of cephalopods, various arthropods may prove to be sentient. We should be aware of various sources of prejudice that M&P discuss and not assume that it would be absurd to attribute sentience and moral status to certain invertebrates.

Reviews the philosophical argumentation of marginal cases of killing in Jeff McMahan's The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life (Oxford UP, 2002) & David Boonin's A Defense of Abortion (Cambridge UP, 2002). Their contributions illuminate the applicability of personal identity theory. Challenges facing the psychological approach to personal identity theory are identified, & McMahan's account of identity, as embodied mind, is rejected. However, a combination of the arguments posited by McMahan & Boonin lends advocacy for a liberal view on abortion. The books' philosophies are praised for applicability to the definition of death & the authority of advance directives in cases of severe dementia. L. Collins

"This volume offers a carefully argued, compelling theory of bioethics while eliciting practical implications for a wide array of issues including medical assistance-in-dying, the right to health care, abortion, animal research, and the definition of death. The authors' dual-value theory features mid-level principles, a distinctive model of moral status, a subjective account of well-being, and a cosmopolitan view of global justice. In addition to ethical theory, the book investigates the nature of harm and autonomous action, personal identity theory, and the 'non-identity problem' associated with many procreative decisions. Readers new to particular topics will benefit from helpful introductions, specialists will appreciate in-depth theoretical explorations and a novel take on various practical issues, and all readers will benefit from the book's original synoptic vision of bioethics. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core"--

"This volume offers a carefully argued, compelling theory of bioethics while eliciting practical implications for a wide array of issues including medical assistance-in-dying, the right to health care, abortion, animal research, and the definition of death. The authors' dual-value theory features mid-level principles, a distinctive model of moral status, a subjective account of well-being, and a cosmopolitan view of global justice. In addition to ethical theory, the book investigates the nature of harm and autonomous action, personal identity theory, and the 'non-identity problem' associated with many procreative decisions. Readers new to particular topics will benefit from helpful introductions, specialists will appreciate in-depth theoretical explorations and a novel take on various practical issues, and all readers will benefit from the book's original synoptic vision of bioethics. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core"--

Preamble to Principles of Animal Research Ethics -- The Essential Place of Moral Justification : Principles of Social Benefit : (1) The Principle of No Alternative Method -- (2) The Principle of Expected Net Benefit -- (3) The Principle of Sufficient Value to Justify Harm -- Principles of Animal Welfare : (1) The Principle of No Unnecessary Harm -- (2) The Principle of Basic Needs -- (3) The Principle of Upper Limits to Harm -- The Crucial Role of Ethics Review Committees -- Scientific Necessity as a Justification for Causing Harm -- On The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique -- Critical Commentary by Authorities on Animal Research Ethics : The Potential and Impacts of Practical Application of Beauchamp and DeGrazia's Six Principles / Larry Carbone -- Reflections on Primates in Research Frans B. M. de Waal -- Putting the Ethical Principles into Practice / Rebecca Dresser -- The Mouse in the Room : The Distinction Between Regulations and Ethics / Joseph P. Garner -- Compassion for Other Animals Beyond the Human Hierarchy of Concern / Brian Hare -- Commentary on the Beauchamp-DeGrazia Framework of Principles / Margaret S. Landi -- The Six Principles, Philosophy, and Applying Human Ethics to Animals / Julian Savulescu.

Americans have an ambivalent relationship to guns. The debate over the role of guns and gun regulations in American society tends to be acrimonious and misinformed. DeGrazia and Hunt bring the advantages of philosophical analysis to this highly-charged issue in the service of illuminating the strongest possible cases for and against (relatively extensive) gun regulations.