The Prenatal Person: Ethics from Conception to BirthISBN: 978-0-631-23491-3
Hardcover
274 pages
August 2002, Wiley-Blackwell
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This text addresses the host of ethical questions that has arisen
recently in response to the development of new reproductive
technologies.
- Addresses the ethical questions which have arisen in response
to new reproductive technologies.
- Helps students of theology, philosophy and health studies, as
well as lay readers tackle these issues.
- Provides readers with relevant medical and scientific
facts.
- Explains how different metaphysical frameworks affect the ways
in which people solve these ethical problems.
- Topics covered include human embryo and embryonic cell stem
research, infertility and its treatments, and prenatal screening
and diagnosis.
- The author takes a balanced approach, acknowledging his loyalty
to Catholicism, yet exploring freely the new options provided by
advancing biological science.