Selecting for deafness – a marvellous opportunity or imposed dependence?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F23%3A00130858" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/23:00130858 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/ebce-2023-0002" target="_blank" >https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/ebce-2023-0002</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ebce-2023-0002" target="_blank" >10.2478/ebce-2023-0002</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Selecting for deafness – a marvellous opportunity or imposed dependence?

Original language description

The paper focuses on the question of whether it is morally permissible to use reproductive technologies to select children with congenital deafness. I review the arguments that have been presented to support the claims that the lack of hearing is not overall bad, that disability is caused by social discrimination rather than impairment, that the community of deaf people gives its members plenty of opportunities to lead a happy life, and that procreative decisions need not improve the world. I argue that although the claims are, to a certain extent, reasonable, they fail to establish the conclusion that selecting for deafness is morally permissible. I further argue that the decision to select a deaf child is morally wrong because it results in imposed and needless dependency, that the happiness of a deaf child is conditioned by their confinement to a relatively small community, and that the deaf parents who reject their child’s potential biculturalism are motivated by questionably self-regarding reasons.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ethics and Bioethics (in Central Europe)

ISSN

1338-5615

e-ISSN

2453-7829

Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1-2

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

15-27

UT code for WoS article

000996025500002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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