The following work presents the ongoing philosophical debate regarding the use of
biotechnology to improve human capabilities and attempts to apply the insights drawn
from these debates to the regulation of non-medical uses of reproductive technology.
After presenting the criticisms towards a hardline approach that would ban all attempts
to enhance humans, we evaluate various alternative frameworks and adopt a framework
called Genetic Justice, which can be understood as an application of Rawlsian distributive
justice to biological assets. After improving on this moral framework by incorporating
various institutional considerations into it, we apply it to the evaluation of non-medical
uses of a screening technique called preimplantation genetic diagnosis and propose
recommendations for its regulation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uottawa.ca/oai:ruor.uottawa.ca:10393/43894 |
| Date | 09 August 2022 |
| Creators | Calderini, Guido |
| Contributors | Robichaud, David |
| Publisher | Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa |
| Source Sets | Université d’Ottawa |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ |
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