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Response to “The Creation Lottery” by Julian Savulescu and John Harris (CQ Vol 13, No 1): The Creation Lottery and Method in Bioethics: A Comment on Savulescu and Harris

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2004

Søren Holm
Søren Holm
Affiliation:
Søren Holm, M.D., Ph.D., Dr.Med.Sci., is Professorial Fellow in Bioethics at Cardiff University, United Kingdom, and Professor of Medical Ethics, University of Oslo, Norway
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I am in general a great admirer of the work of Savulescu and Harris (S&H), not because I think their conclusions are often right but because they state these conclusions and their arguments very clearly. In their joint paper “The Creation Lottery,” they do, nevertheless, tendentiously overstate their case both with regard to the conclusions that flow from identifying natural reproduction as a creation lottery (CL) and in seeing their exchange as an example of good method in bioethics. In the following short comment I want to point to some of the problematic areas in S&H's arguments.

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RESPONSES AND DIALOGUE
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , July 2004 , pp. 283 - 287
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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