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Redefining Human Life - Reproductive Technologies And Social Policy (Paperback)
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Redefining Human Life - Reproductive Technologies And Social Policy (Paperback)
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This book examines critical social-policy issues emerging from
recent developments in human reproductive technology. Although
considerable attention has been focused on the ethical dimensions
of these developments, the policy dimension has largely been
obscured. Dr. Blank now provides a far-ranging overview of the
cumulative impact on society of a wide array of new reproductive
technologies and the social patterns that accompany or precede
their application. The book begins with a description of the
current context of reproductive decision making. Dr. Blank
demonstrates how emerging technologies are producing complex and
intense social-policy concerns, then reviews in detail human
reproductive technologies, and illustrates the significant
consequences of technological innovations for political and legal
concepts of rights and obligations. (Examples include recent cases
involving torts for wrongful life.) He analyzes possible
alterations in the moral and legal status of the fetus in light of
apparent technological and social-policy trends and presents a
paradigm of fetal rights that reflects these changes. A final case
is made for a comprehensive assessment of reproductive
technologies, as well as for the urgent need to refine concepts of
human life that in the past have been taken for granted, but that
now are being challenged.
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