"Docket, 2028: Supreme Council on Psycho-Ethics"

Title"Docket, 2028: Supreme Council on Psycho-Ethics"
Year for Search1980
AuthorsWilliams, Gertrude J. Rubin(1927-86)
Secondary TitleJournal of Clinical Child Psychology
Volume / Edition9.2
Pagination117-18
Date PublishedSummer 1980
KeywordsFemale author, US author
Annotation

Briefly presents a series of cases to come before the Council on Psycho-Ethics that give a picture of the world in 2028, whether it is eutopian or dystopian is up to the reader. The cases include such issues as psychotropic drugs that are required to prevent mental illness, required licenses for parenthood (contraceptives are in the water supply), rights for clones, applications for euthanasia (117), surrogacy (117-18), and the sale of body parts (118).  Half the world’s population had requested exemption from the military on moral grounds (118). 

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Female author (1927-86).

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1980 Williams, Gertrude J. Rubin (1927-86). “Docket, 2028: Supreme Council on Psycho-Ethics.” Journal of Clinical Child Psychology 9.2 (Summer 1980): 117-18. MoU-St

Briefly presents a series of cases to come before the Council on Psycho-Ethics that give a picture of the world in 2028, whether it is eutopian or dystopian is up to the reader. The cases include such issues as psychotropic drugs that are required to prevent mental illness, required licenses for parenthood (contraceptives are in the water supply), rights for clones, applications for euthanasia (117), surrogacy (117-18), and the sale of body parts (118).  Half the world’s population had requested exemption from the military on moral grounds (118). Female author.