Abortion and the status of the fetus
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht ; Boston :
D. Reidel Publishing Company
[1983]
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| Colección: | Philosophy and medicine ;
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
- Section I. Human development : science and public policy
- Abortion : a challenge for ethics and public policy / Thomas A. Shannon
- The fetus in ethical and public policy discussion from 1973 to the present / Leroy Walters
- Generation of the human life cycle / John D. Biggers
- Science, policy, and the fetus : comments on Walters and Biggers / George J. Agich
- Present and possible future research in the use of human embryos / Pierre Soupart
- Section II. Fetuses, persons, and the law
- Is the fetus a person? A lawyer's view / Leonard Glantz
- The concept of person, the law, and the use of the fetus in biomedicine / Patricia D. White
- Toward a normative definition of personhood / Gerald T. Perkoff
- Section III. Humanhood, personhood, and the concept of viability
- The life of a person / Roland Puccetti
- Viability and the use of the fetus / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
- Reflections on the meaning of (fetal) life / Robert C. Solomon
- Section IV. Intercourse, women, and moral responsibility
- Intercourse and moral responsibility for the fetus / Holly M. Smith
- The moral implications of regarding women as people : new perspectives on pregnancy and personhood / Caroline Whitbeck
- The destiny of the fetus / Margery W. Shaw
- Section V. Classical and religious roots of current controversy
- Abortion and exposure in ancient Greece : assessing the status of the fetus and 'newborn' from classical sources / Richard Harrow Feen
- Human personhood : a study in person-alized biology / Albert S. Moraczewski
- Some Roman Catholic concepts of person and their implications for the ontological status of the unborn / James J. McCartney
- Moral pluralism in abortion / Mary Ann Gardell
- Concluding remarks / H.T. Engelhardt, Jr
