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Life Before Birth: The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses

Life Before Birth: The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses

Steinbock, Bonnie

Paperback

PhilosophyMedical Reference

ISBN10: 0195341627
ISBN13: 9780195341621
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jul 11 2011
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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. The book 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 Steinbock's excellent book is . . . consistent, thoroughgoing, and intelligible. --Nature

Steinbock's 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.

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