The Risk of a Lifetime

Synonyms

Book; Procreative ethics; Rivka Weinberg

Definition

The Risk of a Lifetime: How, When, and Why Procreation May Be Permissible is a book written by Rivka Weinberg, originally published in 2016 by Oxford University Press. This book discusses procreative ethics and how a contractualist approach can be applied in the context of procreative ethics.

Introduction

Rivka Weinberg is Professor of Philosophy at Scripps College, Claremont (located in California, USA), who received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She is a philosopher and bioethicist who specializes in ethical and metaphysical concerns regarding birth and death (Oxford University Press 2018). She is the author of the book The Risk of a Lifetime: How, When, and Why Procreation May Be Permissible (Weinberg 2016), which discusses procreative ethics generally and the application of a contractualist approach (i.e., the view that morality is based on a contract or agreement; see also, e.g., Baumard and Sheskin 2015)...