The Prenatal Person: Ethics from Conception to Birth

ISBN: 978-0-631-23492-0

Paperback

272 pages

August 2002, Wiley-Blackwell

Other Available Formats: Hardcover

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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.