Engineering Perfection: Solidarity, Disability, and Well-being

What do we owe our future children? How do advances in biomedical science bear on these obligations? How do capitalist incentives distort their execution? Advances in biotechnologies for human enhancement and designer babies appear to offer us new hope to control the fragility of human living. Some philosophers have argued that we have a moral imperative to use them, especially to eliminate disabilities.
Elyse Purcell offers an opposing view, one guided by existential insights and Marxist r...