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Life before birth : the moral and legal status of embryos and fetuses / Bonnie Steinbock.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steinbock, Bonnie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abortion--Law and legislation.
- Abortion.
- Abortion--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Fetus--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Fetus.
- Fetus--Research--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Prenatal care--Law and legislation.
- Prenatal care.
- Prenatal care--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Abortion, Induced.
- Embryo, Mammalian.
- Legislation as Topic.
- Morals.
- Reproductive Techniques, Assisted.
- Medical Subjects:
- Fetus.
- Abortion, Induced.
- Embryo, Mammalian.
- Legislation as Topic.
- Morals.
- Reproductive Techniques, Assisted.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 311 pages)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Other Title:
- Moral and legal status of embryos and fetuses
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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, difficul
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Interest View; I. Consciousness and Interests; Is Consciousness Necessary for Having Interests?; Is Consciousness Sufficient for Having Interests?; II. The Interests of Nonconscious Individuals; Dead People; Permanently Unconscious People; Infants with Anencephaly; III. Future People; IV. The Parfit Problem and the Farther Future; V. Potential People: Embryos and Fetuses; 2. Abortion; I. The Moral Standing of the Fetus; The Conservative Position; Fetal Sentience; Implantation; The Person View; The Right to Life.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-045094-0
- 1-280-52909-1
- 0-19-971207-7
- OCLC:
- 763157710
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