One of the first available monographs to combine reproductive ethics and post-structuralist philosophy, especially of biopolitics

Provides clear, insightful discussion of key issues in reproductive ethics, including liberal eugenics, reproductive liberty, value pluralism, the principle of harm and disability

Develops an innovative framework that will have a continuing impact on the way that reproductive ethics is done

1. Introduction Disability, Gender and Selective Termination


Liberal Eugenics What is biopolitics?.- 2. Normal life: liberal eugenics, value pluralism and normalisation Introduction Shaping People: human enhancement and normality What is normalisation? The vitality of social norms Conclusion.- 3. Reproductive autonomy as self-making Introduction The presumptive priority of reproductive liberty Enacting freedom: the ethical practice of reproductive autonomy Conclusion.- 4. The limits of reproductive autonomy: prenatal testing, harm and disability Introduction Disability, harm and the non-identity problem The expressivist critique of prenatal testing: a defense Conclusion.- 5. Reproducing alterity: ethical subjectivity and genetic screening Introduction Genetic selection and ethical self-understanding Natality, corporeality, singularity Screening singularity


Conclusion.- 6. Ultrasound, embodiment and abortion Introduction Ultrasound images and the sympathetic imagination The social production of sympathy: biopolitical reproduction The ethical demand of embodied appearance: relationality and responsibility Conclusion.-7. Final Remarks.