Persons, Moral Worth, and Embryos (eBook, PDF)

A Critical Analysis of Pro-Choice Arguments

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Produktbeschreibung

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherland
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789400716025
• Artikelnr.: 38387301

Inhaltsangabe

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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.