caa a22 4500 467896607 CHVBK 20180406152805.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11019-005-2852-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11019-005-2852-9 Nunes Rui Director of the Department of Bioethics of the School of Medicine, University of Oporto, Estrada da Circunvalação 9925, 4250-150, Porto, EU, Portugal aut Deafness, Genetics and Dysgenics [Elektronische Daten] [Rui Nunes] It has been argued by some authors that our reaction to deaf parents who choose deafness for their children ought to be compassion, not condemnation. Although I agree with the reasoning proposed I suggest that this practice could be regarded as unethical. In this article, I shall use the term "dysgenic” as a culturally imposed genetic selection not to achieve any improvement of the human person but to select genetic traits that are commonly accepted as a disabling condition by the majority of the social matrix; in short as a handicap. As in eugenics, dysgenics can be achieved in a positive and a negative way. Positive dysgenics intends to increase the overall number of people with a particular genetic trait. Marriage between deaf people or conceiving deaf children through reproductive technology are examples of positive dysgenics. Negative dysgenics can be obtained through careful prenatal or pre-implantation selection and abortion (or discarding) of normal embryos and foetuses. Only deaf children would be allowed to live. If dysgenics is seen as a programmed genetic intervention that undesirably shapes the human condition - like deliberately creating deaf or dwarf people - the professionals involved in reproductive technologies should answer the question if this should be an accepted ethical practice because the basic human right to an open future is violated. Springer, 2006 deafness nationallicence dysgenics nationallicence eugenics nationallicence genetics nationallicence repro-genetics nationallicence Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/1(2006-03-01), 25-31 1386-7423 9:1<25 2006 9 11019 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-005-2852-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-005-2852-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Nunes Rui Director of the Department of Bioethics of the School of Medicine, University of Oporto, Estrada da Circunvalação 9925, 4250-150, Porto, EU, Portugal aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/1(2006-03-01), 25-31 1386-7423 9:1<25 2006 9 11019 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer