Ethics of Reproductive Genetics

Marta Soniewicka (editor): obtained doctorate both in Law (2007) and in Philosophy (2016). She works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy of Law and Legal Ethics at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland). Her research interests concentrate on the philosophy of law, political philosophy, and ethics (including bioethics). She has authored and co-authored numerous articles, chapters and books, including Granice sprawiedliwości, sprawiedliwość ponad granicami (Boundaries of Justice, Justice Beyond Boundaries, Wolters Kluwer 2010), Paradoksy bioetyki prawniczej (Paradoxes of Legal Bioethics, Wolters Kluwer 2010; along with J. Stelmach & B. Brożek & W. Załuski). She has received numerous awards and scholarships, including  the Fulbright Scholarship (2011), the scholarship of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education for outstanding young scholars (2013-2016), and the award ofthe Polish weekly magazine “Polityka” (2011).

• Introduction (Marta Soniewicka).- Part I. Moral theories applied to biomedicine.- 1. Ethical Theory and Moral Intuitions in Biomedical Decision-Making (Robert Audi).- 2. Do Our Moral Judgments Need to Be Guided by Principles? (Roberto Andorno).- 3. The Moral Philosophy of Genetic Counseling: Principles, Virtues and Utility Reconsidered (Marta Soniewicka).- 4. Moral Virtue and the Principles of Practical Reason (Adriana Warmbier).- 5. Parents, Special Obligations and Reproductive Genetics (Wojciech Lewandowski).- 6. A Bioethic of Communion: Beyond Care and the Four Principles (Thaddeus Metz).- 7. Context Counts - Bioethics in the Age of Globalization (Aeddan Shaw).- 8. Are There Unsolvable Dilemmas in Bioethics? (Barbara Chyrowicz).- Part II. The moral, legal and social challenges of reproductive genetics.- 9. Pragmatism, Law, and Morality: The Lessons of Buck v. Bell (Susan Haack).- 10. Inheritable Human Genetic Modifications: How Far Can We Go? (Peter Sykora).- 11. Reproductive and Therapeutic Cloning (Hennig Rosenau).- 12. Embryo: When Definitions Really Matter? (Iñigo de Miguel Beriain).- 13. Geneticization and Bioethics: Genetic Testing and the Right (not) to Know (Ewa Baum).- 14. Prenatal Tests: The Elimination of Disability or Elimination of People with Disabilities? (Błażej Kmieciak).- 15. Ethical, Legal and Cross-Cultural Issues Regarding Late Termination of Pregnancy and Umbilical Cord Blood Bio-Banking: African Perspectives (Sylvester Chima).- 16. From Informed Choice to Distributed Decision-Making:  Studying Prenatal Decision Making as Processes of Knowledge Production (Nete Schwennesen).- 17. Technical and Ethical Limits in Prenatal and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (Małgorzata Karbarz). 18. Conscientious Objection in Medical Practice – Between Religious, Moral and Legal Norms (Jakub Pawlikowski).