Description: Life Before Birth : The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses, Paperback by Steinbock, Bonnie, ISBN 0195341627, ISBN-13 9780195341621, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Life Before Birth provides a coherent framework for addressing bioethical issues in which the moral status of embryos and fetuses is relevant. It is based on the "interest view" which ascribes moral standing to beings with interests, and connects the possession of interests with the capacity
for conscious awareness or sentience. The theoretical framework is applied to ethical and legal topics, including abortion, prenatal torts, wrongful life, the crime of feticide, substance abuse by pregnant women, compulsory cesareans, assisted reproduction, and stem cell research. Along the way,
difficult philosophical problems, such as identity and the non-identity problem are thoroughly explored. Th will be of interest not only to philosophers, but also physicians, lawyers, policy makers, and anyone perplexed by the many difficulties surrounding the unborn.
"Bonnie Steinbocks excellent book is . . . consistent, thoroughgoing, and intelligible." --Nature
"Steinbocks book is valuable for all interested in the ethical/legal issues surrounding abortion, prenatal injury and liability, maternal-fetal conflict, and fetal/embryo research. The author provides an excellent historical overview of these issues, but she also addresses the issues from the
stance of a particular theory of moral status, namely, interest theory. This gives coherence to her discussion as well as allowing testing of the viability of interest theory."
--Choice
"A focused, lucid, analytically fine-grained discussion of a wide variety of problems. . . extremely useful as a survey of the current state of the debate." --Religious Studies Review
"Merits serious consideration by physicians. Steinbocks interests-based approach treats all questions as open -- another and most welcome breath of fresh air." -New England Journal of Medicine
"An extremely valuable contribution to the literature. The author carefully identifies the many bioethical issues to which the status of embryos and fetuses is relevant....She thoroughly reviews the extensive medical, bioethical, and legal literature on all of these issues, offering well-developed
critiques of many standard positions. She articulates and thoughtfully defends interesting positions on all of theses topics. Anyone with an interest in these issues will learn a great deal from her knowledgeable and judicious treatment of them." -- The Journal of Clinical Ethics
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Book Title: Life Before Birth : The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fet
Number of Pages: 328 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Life before Birth : the Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses, Second Edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Abortion & Birth Control, Pregnancy & Childbirth, General, Life Sciences / Zoology / Mammals, Technical Writing, Gender & the Law, Family Law / Children
Publication Year: 2011
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.1 Oz
Subject Area: Law, Philosophy, Technology & Engineering, Health & Fitness, Social Science, Science, Medical
Item Length: 6.1 in
Author: Bonnie Steinbock
Item Width: 9.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
