 The Prenatal Person: Ethics from Conception to Birth
ISBN: 978-0-631-23491-3
Hardcover
272 pages
August 2002, Wiley-Blackwell
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This text addresses the host of ethical questions that has arisen recently in response to the development of new reproductive technologies.
* Addresses the ethical questions which have arisen in response to new reproductive technologies.
* Helps students of theology, philosophy and health studies, as well as lay readers tackle these issues.
* Provides readers with relevant medical and scientific facts.
* Explains how different metaphysical frameworks affect the ways in which people solve these ethical problems.
* Topics covered include human embryo and embryonic cell stem research, infertility and its treatments, and prenatal screening and diagnosis.
* The author takes a balanced approach, acknowledging his loyalty to Catholicism, yet exploring freely the new options provided by advancing biological science.
* Addresses the ethical questions which have arisen in response to new reproductive technologies.
* Helps students of theology, philosophy and health studies, as well as lay readers tackle these issues.
* Provides readers with relevant medical and scientific facts.
* Explains how different metaphysical frameworks affect the ways in which people solve these ethical problems.
* Topics covered include human embryo and embryonic cell stem research, infertility and its treatments, and prenatal screening and diagnosis.
* The author takes a balanced approach, acknowledging his loyalty to Catholicism, yet exploring freely the new options provided by advancing biological science.
