The Ethics of Reproductive Technology - Couverture souple

Alpern, Kenneth D.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195074351 ISBN 13 : 9780195074352

Editeur : Oxford University Press USA, 1992

Synopsis

This timely anthology helps students examine the normative and conceptual issues raised by recent innovations in human reproduction, including in vitro fertilization, embryo transfer, and surrogate motherhood. Broad-based and interdisciplinary, it gathers together essays of remarkable depth and philosophical sophistication by legal scholars, health care professionals, scientists, and theologians as well as philosophers, paying particular attention to women's perspectives and to issues that concern women. Organized around issues rather than techniques and featuring unusually clear introductions to current ethical and legal debates, the text sets the conceptual framework for addressing issues of prudence, morality, and public policy while providing the broadest possible context for the readings and teasing out the connections among them.

Designed for a wide range of courses and for students at many levels, the anthology provides both a firm grounding in the basics--the biology of human reproduction, the specific procedures involved in various reproductive techniques, and the psychology of infertility--and a broad range of readings that provide the depth for more advanced thinking. Other unique features are a section on professional responsibilities that will appeal to more scientifically oriented students, a detailed study of the Baby M case that raises profound questions about the legal treatment of reproduction, and an annotated reading list that guides students past today's welter of popular ephemera to many important but lesser-known sources.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This anthology examines the normative and conceptual issues raised by recent innovation in human reproduction, including such practices as in-vitro fertilization, embryo transfer, and parenting through contract (surrogate motherhood). Its purpose is to identify and analyse the conceptual relations important for understanding and making judgements about the normative concerns of prudence, morality, and public policy (including law).

Revue de presse

a fine collection, well thought through, and one that will be a useful and welcome addition to the available material (Joseph Pitt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute)

provides a good overview of several of the issues and provides a way of raising the ethical and social issues ... a good contribution (Thomas Shannon, Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press USA
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195074351
• ISBN 13: 9780195074352
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 376
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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