| Description |
x, 273 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Preliminaries -- Epidosembryos -- Individuation -- Respect for specific life -- Consensus -- Clones -- Analyzing alternatives -- Shaping norms |
| Summary |
"Acknowledging each embryo as an object of moral concern, Louis M. Guenin argues that it is morally permissible to decline intrauterine transfer of an embryo formed outside the body, and that from this permission and the duty of beneficence, there follows a consensus justification for using donated embryos in service of humanitarian ends. He then proceeds to show how this justification commands assent even within moral and religious views commonly thought to oppose embryo use. Beneath his moral reasoning lies a carefully constructed metaphysical foundation incorporating accounts of the ontology of development, embryos, and species. He also incisively discusses nonreprocloning, reprocloning, ectogenesis, and related scientific frontiers."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Embryonic stem cells -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Fetus -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Fetus -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Human embryo -- Therapeutic use -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Life and death, Power over.
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Embryo Disposition -- ethics.
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Embryo Research -- ethics.
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Cloning, Organism -- ethics.
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Embryo Transfer -- ethics.
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Embryonic Stem Cells.
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Personhood.
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| LC no. |
2008013429 |
| ISBN |
0521694272 (paperback) |
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0521872693 (hbk.) |
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9780521694278 (paperback) |
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9780521872690 (hbk.) |
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