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Life Before Birth - The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses, Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Life Before Birth - The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses, Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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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
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