John Harris: leading libertarian bioethicist

摘要

"The freedom of citizens should not be curtailed without good reason." An uncontentious view, you may think; something we can all sign up to. But out of the mouth of the professor of bioethics at the UK's Manchester University the words deliver a spikier, more radical message. Because John Harris makes a point of following his reasoning wherever it leads, this determined libertarian believes that people should be, among other things, allowed to sell their kidneys for transplantation, choose the gender of their children, and intervene in reproduction not only to avoid disability and disease but to enhance the quality of their offspring. #