Persons, Moral Worth, and Embryos

A Critical Analysis of Pro-Choice Arguments

AvStephen Napier

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

Del 111 i serien Philosophy and Medicine

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Beskrivning

“Bioethicists have achieved consensus on two ideas pertaining to beginning of life issues: (1) persons are those beings capable of higher-order cognition, or self-consciousness, and (2) it is impermissible to kill only persons.

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-06-22
Mått:155 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt:576 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Philosophy and Medicine
Antal sidor:286
Förlag:Springer
ISBN:9789400716018

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Introduction: What are Persons? What is Valuable?Stephen Napier.-Part 1. Philosophical Considerations.-I was Once a Fetus: That is Why Abortion is Wrong Alexander Pruss.-Brain Life and the Argument from Potential: Affirming the Ontological Status of Human Embryos and Fetuses,Jason T. Eberl and Brandon P. Brown.-The Human Being, a Person of Substance: A Response to Dean Stretton, Francis J. Beckwith.-The Concept of Person in Bioethics, Anselm Winfried Müller.-Abortion and Virtue Ethics Mathew Lu.-Embryos, Four-Dimensionalism, and Moral Status, David Hershenov.-The Christian Hypothesis, David W. Fagerberg.-Fetal Interests, Fetal Persons, and Human Goods, Christopher Tollefsen.-Part 2. Scientific Considerations.-Fetal Pains and Fetal Brains, A.A. Howsepian.-A Biological Definition of the Human Embryo,Maureen L. Condic.-Part 3. Perspectives from Law and Political Philosophy.-Public Reason and Abortion Revisited, David Thunder.-Sexual Markets and the Law, Helen M. Alvaré.-Index.