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Greasley, Kate

 
9780198806608: Arguments About Abortion: Personhood, Morality, and Law
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ISBN 10 : 0198806604 ISBN 13 : 9780198806608
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Does the morality of abortion depend on the moral status of the human fetus? Must the law of abortion presume an answer to the question of when personhood begins? Can a law which permits late abortion but not infanticide be morally justified? These are just some of the questions this book sets out to address.

With an extended analysis of the moral and legal status of abortion, Kate Greasley offers an alternative account to the reputable arguments of Ronald Dworkin and Judith Jarvis Thomson and instead brings the philosophical notion of 'personhood' to the foreground of this debate.

Structured in three parts, the book will (I) consider the relevance of prenatal personhood for the moral and legal evaluation of abortion; (II) trace the key features of the conventional debate about when personhood begins and explore the most prominent issues in abortion ethics literature: the human equality problem and the difference between abortion and infanticide; and (III) examine abortion law and regulation as well as the differing attitudes to selective abortion. The book concludes with a snapshot into the current controversy surrounding the scope of the right to conscientiously object to participation in abortion provision.

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À propos de l'auteur

Kate Greasley is a Lecturer in Law at University College London. After completing her doctorate in law at New College, Oxford, she was appointed to a Junior Research Fellowship in Law at University College, Oxford, from 2013 to 2016. Her research and teaching covers medical law and ethics, criminal law, and legal theory. She has written extensively to date about issues in abortion law and ethics, as well as other topics in bioethics, including assisted dying, property rights in human body parts, and the commercialization of human organs.


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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0198806604
ISBN 13 
9780198806608
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Nombre de pages
280
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9780198766780: Arguments About Abortion: Personhood, Morality, and Law

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ISBN 10 :  0198766785 ISBN 13 :  9780198766780
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2017
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