Life Before Birth : The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses =Life before birth: the moral and legal status of embryos and fetuses
Bonnie. Steinbock
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | New York ; Oxford : : Oxford University Press, , 2011.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (328 p.)
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| Utgave | 2nd ed.
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - 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. - I. Recovery for Prenatal Injury in TortsAgainst Third Parties; The Irrelevance of Viability; Preconception Torts; Against the Mother; The Woman's Right of Privacy; Automobile Liability; II. Prenatal Wrongful Death; Wrongful-Death Actions; The Implications for Abortion; III. The Criminal Law; Prenatal Neglect; Homicide; IV. Wrongful Life; 4. Maternal-Fetal Conflict; I. Moral Obligations to the Not-Yet-Born; Risks to the Fetus; II. Pregnant Women and the Law; Delivering Drugs Through the Umbilical Cord; Criminal Prosecution for Child Abuse or Endangerment; Criminal Prosecution for Homicide. - II. The Argument From PotentialThe Logical Problem; Contraception and the Moral Standing of Gametes; III. The Future-Like-Ours Account; IV. Identity; The Embodied Mind Account; The Biological View; The Interest View and the Time-Relative Interests Account; Sentient Fetuses; V. Possible People; The Nonidentity Problem; VI. The Argument From Bodily Self-Determination; Thomson's Defense of Abortion; Roe v. Wade; VII. The Moral and Legal Significance of Viability; Late Abortions; Partial-Birth Abortion; 3. Beyond Abortion: The Fetus in Tort and Criminal Law. - Jailing the Pregnant AddictTermination of Parental Rights; Compulsory Cesarean Sections; The Implications of Roe v. Wade; McFall v. Shimp and the Duty to Rescue; Less Invasive Cases; 5. Assisted Reproductive Technology; I. The Science of Assisted Reproductive Technology; In Vitro Fertilization; Health Risks to Women; Health Risks to Offspring; II. Procreative Liberty and Its Critics; John Robertson; Adoption and the Right to Have Biologically Related Children; Core Values and Penumbral Interests; The Interests of Children and the Nonidentity Problem; III. Limits to Procreative Liberty. - Postmenopausal MothersThe Risk of Transmitting Disease or Disability; Multiple Births; IV. Dispositional Problems; Davis v. Davis; Kass v. Kass; V. Gamete Donation; Sperm Donation; Egg Donation; 6. Stem Cell Research; I. The Science; Adult Stem Cells; Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells; Cloning: Reproductive Versus Therapeutic; II. The Moral Standing of the Human Embryo; The Twinning Problem; Respect for Embryos; Kantian Respect; Moral Standing Versus Moral Value; The Basis for Ascribing Moral Value to Human Embryos; III. The Discarded-Created Distinction; IV. Payment for Oocytes. - V. Chimeras, Hybrids, and Cybrids. - 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
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| Emner | Abortion -- Law and legislation.
Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects. Fetus -- Legal status, laws, etc. Fetus -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects. Vis mer... Fetus.
Law, General & Comparative Law, Politics & Government Prenatal care -- Law and legislation. Prenatal care -- Moral and ethical aspects. Abortion, Induced Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment Anatomy Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms Embryo, Mammalian Embryonic Structures Ethics Health Care Health Care Economics and Organizations Humanities Investigative Techniques Legislation as Topic Morals Obstetric Surgical Procedures Philosophy Psychiatry and Psychology Psychology, Social Reproductive Techniques Reproductive Techniques, Assisted Social Control, Formal Surgical Procedures, Operative Therapeutics |
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| ISBN | 0-19-971207-7. - 1-280-52909-1
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