Persons, Moral Worth, and Embryos A Critical Analysis of Pro-Choice Arguments /

“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. As a consequence, a consensus is reached regarding the permissibility of...

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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Napier, Stephen (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
Σειρά:Philosophy and Medicine, 111
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  •  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.  .