1st Edition
Procreative Responsibility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Introduction
1. Current and Future Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Prenatal Treatments
2. Responsibility, Procreation, and Reproduction
3. Procreative Beneficence, the Non-Identity Problem, and Impersonal Harm
4. Person-Affecting Morality and the Future of Human Reproduction
5. Is Genome Editing Really Non-Identity-Affecting? A Defense of the Greater Moral Obligation View
6. Responsibility, Genetic Enhancement, and the Child’s Right to an Open Future
7. Beyond Consequences? Attitudes and Intentions in Current and Future Assisted Reproduction
Conclusions
Biography
Davide Battisti is a postdoctoral researcher in Philosophy of Law and Bioethics at the Department of Law of the University of Bergamo. He also serves as an adjunct professor of Bioethics in the Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs Program at the University of Milan and the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University. He has published several papers on topics such as reproductive ethics, the allocation of scarce healthcare resources, the ethics of science communication, and research ethics. His work has appeared in journals such as Bioethics, the Journal of Medical Ethics, Social Epistemology, and Ethics of Human Research.
"Procreative Responsibility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies examines the whole gamut of new technologies related to reproduction, including in vitro gametogenesis, artificial wombs, and genome editing. Surprisingly, and I think correctly, Battisti argues that some of these, such as genome editing and artificial wombs, will create new and more demanding obligations and responsibilities for parents. This is a tour de force in reproductive ethics: comprehensive, deep, carefully argued, balanced, and challenging. It is a must-read for those entering these debates and for old soldiers who will discover new perspectives."
Julian Savulescu, Chen Su Lan Centennial Professor in Medical Ethics and Director of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at National University of Singapore
