TY - JOUR
AU - Rawling, Piers
AB - 39 0 moral education made up of particular injunctions? Moreover, while Miiller does give an answer ('there is no basis') to his main question, he does not explicitly rebut the Hippy. David Braine's 'The Human and the Inhuman in Medicine' is a profoundly interesting discussion of the uses and misuses of technology. Modern moralists, concentrating as they do on minds or persons, ignore the fact that men are animals, thus encouraging an 'anything goes' approach to in vitro fertilization [IVF], embryo transplants and artificial insemination by donor [AID]. Meanwhile current tech­ nology, which shows little respect for farm animals, is turning its attention to the human animal. Braine argues that morality is shaped not only by what is needed by persons or minds but also by the animal body and what is natural to it. In IVF and embryo transfer, he says, 'one seems to have no norms derived from, or integrating with, acceptance of man's natural and animal character, but to be in an area of anarchic, non-animal, mastery'. He notes that the destruction of embryos is an essential feature of IVF, and remarks 'The child of IVF and embryo transfer has been given the character of a 
TI - Book Reviews
JF - Philosophical Quarterly
DO - 10.2307/2956452
DA - 1996-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/book-reviews-g46Dmgf9j1
SP - 390
EP - 393
VL - 46
IS - 184
DP - DeepDyve
ER -