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Life Before Birth

Author : Bonnie Steinbock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199712077
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Life Before Birth written by Bonnie Steinbock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life Before Birth provides a coherent framework for addressing bioethical issues in which the moral status of embryos and fetuses is relevant. It is based on the "interest view" which ascribes moral standing to beings with interests, and connects the possession of interests with the capacity for conscious awareness or sentience. The theoretical framework is applied to ethical and legal topics, including abortion, prenatal torts, wrongful life, the crime of feticide, substance abuse by pregnant women, compulsory cesareans, assisted reproduction, and stem cell research. Along the way, difficult philosophical problems, such as identity and the non-identity problem are thoroughly explored. The book will be of interest not only to philosophers, but also physicians, lawyers, policy makers, and anyone perplexed by the many difficulties surrounding the unborn. "Bonnie Steinbock's excellent book is . . . consistent, thoroughgoing, and intelligible." --Nature "Steinbock's book is valuable for all interested in the ethical/legal issues surrounding abortion, prenatal injury and liability, maternal-fetal conflict, and fetal/embryo research. The author provides an excellent historical overview of these issues, but she also addresses the issues from the stance of a particular theory of moral status, namely, interest theory. This gives coherence to her discussion as well as allowing testing of the viability of interest theory." --Choice "A focused, lucid, analytically fine-grained discussion of a wide variety of problems. . . extremely useful as a survey of the current state of the debate." --Religious Studies Review "Merits serious consideration by physicians. Steinbock's interests-based approach treats all questions as open -- another and most welcome breath of fresh air." -New England Journal of Medicine "An extremely valuable contribution to the literature. The author carefully identifies the many bioethical issues to which the status of embryos and fetuses is relevant....She thoroughly reviews the extensive medical, bioethical, and legal literature on all of these issues, offering well-developed critiques of many standard positions. She articulates and thoughtfully defends interesting positions on all of theses topics. Anyone with an interest in these issues will learn a great deal from her knowledgeable and judicious treatment of them." -- The Journal of Clinical Ethics

Metaphorical Imagination

Author : Kayhan Pake Parsi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Metaphorical Imagination written by Kayhan Pake Parsi and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rites of Life

Author : Landrum Brewer Shettles
Publisher : Zondervan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Rites of Life written by Landrum Brewer Shettles and published by Zondervan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beating Hearts

Author : Sherry F. Colb
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231540957
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Beating Hearts written by Sherry F. Colb and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can someone who condemns hunting, animal farming, and animal experimentation also favor legal abortion, which is the deliberate destruction of a human fetus? The authors of Beating Hearts aim to reconcile this apparent conflict and examine the surprisingly similar strategic and tactical questions faced by activists in the pro-life and animal rights movements. Beating Hearts maintains that sentience, or the ability to have subjective experiences, grounds a being's entitlement to moral concern. The authors argue that nearly all human exploitation of animals is unjustified. Early abortions do not contradict the sentience principle because they precede fetal sentience, and Beating Hearts explains why the mere potential for sentience does not create moral entitlements. Late abortions do raise serious moral questions, but forcing a woman to carry a child to term is problematic as a form of gender-based exploitation. These ethical explorations lead to a wider discussion of the strategies deployed by the pro-life and animal rights movements. Should legal reforms precede or follow attitudinal changes? Do gory images win over or alienate supporters? Is violence ever principled? By probing the connections between debates about abortion and animal rights, Beating Hearts uses each highly contested set of questions to shed light on the other.

Icons of Life

Author : Lynn Morgan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520944720
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Icons of Life written by Lynn Morgan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-09-09 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Icons of Life tells the engrossing and provocative story of an early twentieth-century undertaking, the Carnegie Institution of Washington's project to collect thousands of embryos for scientific study. Lynn M. Morgan blends social analysis, sleuthing, and humor to trace the history of specimen collecting. In the process, she illuminates how a hundred-year-old scientific endeavor continues to be felt in today's fraught arena of maternal and fetal politics. Until the embryo collecting project-which she follows from the Johns Hopkins anatomy department, through Baltimore foundling homes, and all the way to China-most people had no idea what human embryos looked like. But by the 1950s, modern citizens saw in embryos an image of "ourselves unborn," and embryology had developed a biologically based story about how we came to be. Morgan explains how dead specimens paradoxically became icons of life, how embryos were generated as social artifacts separate from pregnant women, and how a fetus thwarted Gertrude Stein's medical career. By resurrecting a nearly forgotten scientific project, Morgan sheds light on the roots of a modern origin story and raises the still controversial issue of how we decide what embryos mean.

Soul of the Embryo

Author : David Albert Jones
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826462960
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Soul of the Embryo written by David Albert Jones and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-12-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary ethical debates about the status of the human embryo involve not only philosophical concerns, but specifically religious arguments. This is a systematic work on the history of Christian reflection on the human embryo.

The Ethics of Abortion

Author : Christopher Kaczor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415884693
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Abortion written by Christopher Kaczor and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appealing to reason rather than religious belief, this book is the most comprehensive case against the choice of abortion yet published. The Ethics of Abortion critically evaluates all the major grounds for denying fetal personhood, including the views of those who defend not only abortion but also infanticide. It also provides several (non-theological) justifications for the conclusion that all human beings, including those in utero, should be respected as persons. This book also critiques the view that abortion is not wrong even if the human fetus is a person. The Ethics of Abortion examines hard cases for those who are prolife, such as abortion in cases of rape or in order to save the motherâe(tm)s life, as well as hard cases for defenders of abortion, such as sex selection abortion and the rationale for being âeoepersonally opposedâe but publically supportive of abortion. It concludes with a discussion of whether artificial wombs might end the abortion debate. Answering the arguments of defenders of abortion, this book provides reasoned justification for the view that all intentional abortions are morally wrong and that doctors and nurses who object to abortion should not be forced to act against their consciences.

Metaphorical Imagination

Author : Kayhan Pake Parsi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (298 download)

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Science and Babies

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309041368
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Science and Babies written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1990-02-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By all indicators, the reproductive health of Americans has been deteriorating since 1980. Our nation is troubled by rates of teen pregnancies and newborn deaths that are worse than almost all others in the Western world. Science and Babies is a straightforward presentation of the major reproductive issues we face that suggests answers for the public. The book discusses how the clash of opinions on sex and family planning prevents us from making a national commitment to reproductive health; why people in the United States have fewer contraceptive choices than those in many other countries; what we need to do to improve social and medical services for teens and people living in poverty; how couples should "shop" for a fertility service and make consumer-wise decisions; and what we can expect in the futureâ€"featuring interesting accounts of potential scientific advances.

Is the Fetus a Person?

Author : Jean Reith Schroedel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801437076
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Is the Fetus a Person? written by Jean Reith Schroedel and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As much a model for future research as a study of the status of the fetus, this book offers an examination of one of the most divisive and complex issues of American life."--BOOK JACKET.

Legal Issues in Embryo and Fetal Tissue Research and Therapy

Author : Bernard M. Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Legal Issues in Embryo and Fetal Tissue Research and Therapy written by Bernard M. Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical treatment of human life, before live birth, can be applied to gametes, pre-implantation embryos (pre-embryos), embryos, and fetuses. The Criminal Code recognizes a child that has not become a human being, meaning a fetus of full gestational age, or at least that is independently viable outside the uterus, meaning that is has not completely proceeded, in a living state, from the body of its mother. This paper considers pre-embryos, both in vivo and in vitro, and embryos and fetuses in utero. It addresses four individual categories: treatment of particular pre-embryos, embryos, and fetuses; treatment to benefit pre-embryos, embryos, and fetuses in general; treatment to benefit patients through the use of embryonic or fetal tissues; and the development of commercial interests through the use of embryonic or fetal tissues.

Abortion and the Status of the Fetus

Author : W.B. Bondeson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abortion and the Status of the Fetus written by W.B. Bondeson and published by . This book was released on 1983-06-30 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This vol. grew out of a symposium "Concept of person and its implications for the use of the fetus in biomedicine", October 29, 30 and 31, 1980 at the Health Science Center of the University of Missouri-Columbia under the sponsorship of the Departments of Medicine and Philosophy and the Program in Health care and Human Values" - Editorial preface.

Abortion Rights

Author : Kate Greasley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107170931
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Abortion Rights written by Kate Greasley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents critical and forcefully argued debate between two moral philosophers, setting out strong cases on both sides of the argument.

The Beginning of Human Life

Author : Frauke Beller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401582572
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Beginning of Human Life written by Frauke Beller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progress in biomedical science has called for an international discussion of the medical, ethical, and legal problems that confront physicians, medical researchers, infertile couples, pregnant women, and parents of premature or disabled infants. In addition, the unprecedented technological developments in obstetrical, perinatal, and neonatal medicine in recent years have indicated a need for an international forum for interdisciplinary dialogue regarding the definition of early human life, the neurological development of early human life, the value of early human life, the obligations for its protection and prolongation, and the limits to these obligations.

Contemporary Bioethics

Author : Mohammed Ali Al-Bar
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319184288
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Bioethics written by Mohammed Ali Al-Bar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the common principles of morality and ethics derived from divinely endowed intuitive reason through the creation of al-fitr' a (nature) and human intellect (al-‘aql). Biomedical topics are presented and ethical issues related to topics such as genetic testing, assisted reproduction and organ transplantation are discussed. Whereas these natural sources are God’s special gifts to human beings, God’s revelation as given to the prophets is the supernatural source of divine guidance through which human communities have been guided at all times through history. The second part of the book concentrates on the objectives of Islamic religious practice – the maqa' sid – which include: Preservation of Faith, Preservation of Life, Preservation of Mind (intellect and reason), Preservation of Progeny (al-nasl) and Preservation of Property. Lastly, the third part of the book discusses selected topical issues, including abortion, assisted reproduction devices, genetics, organ transplantation, brain death and end-of-life aspects. For each topic, the current medical evidence is followed by a detailed discussion of the ethical issues involved.

The Problem of Abortion

Author : Joel Feinberg
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Problem of Abortion written by Joel Feinberg and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 1984 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * A collection of readings on abortion intended for applied ethics courses.

Rights, Duties, and the Body

Author : Rosamund Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474200486
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Rights, Duties, and the Body written by Rosamund Scott and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If a pregnant woman refuses medical treatment needed by the fetus - for instance for religious reasons - or conducts some aspect of her life in a way which risks fetal harm, there may arise an instance of ""maternal-fetal conflict"". This is an unfortunate term, since pregant women are generally renowned for their self-sacrificing behaviour, but it may well reflect the reality of certain maternal choices and actions. Should a pregnant woman have the legal right to refuse medical treatment needed by the fetus, or should she owe it a legal duty of care which precludes her acting in ways which.