Persons, Moral Worth, and Embryos (Record no. 109522)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789400716025
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024 7# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 10.1007/978-94-007-1602-5
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Classification number BJ1-1725
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Subject category code HPQ
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Subject category code PHI005000
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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 170
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Napier, Stephen.
Relator term editor.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Persons, Moral Worth, and Embryos
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title A Critical Analysis of Pro-Choice Arguments /
Statement of responsibility, etc edited by Stephen Napier.
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Extent XIV, 286 p.
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Series statement Philosophy and Medicine,
International Standard Serial Number 0376-7418 ;
Volume number/sequential designation 111
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note  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.  .
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Summary, etc “Bioethicists have achieved consensus on two ideas pertaining to beginning of life issues: (1) persons are those beings capable of higher-order cognition, or self-consciousness, and (2) it is impermissible to kill only persons. As a consequence, a consensus is reached regarding the permissibility of both destroying human embryos for research purposes and abortion. The present collection aims to interact critically with this consensus. Authors address various aspects of this ‘orthodoxy’. Issues discussed include: theories of personhood and in particular the role of thought experiments used in support of such theories; the notion of an intrinsic potential and the moral relevance of having one; new formulations of the virtue argument against abortion rights; four-dimensionalism and abortion; the notion of moral status and who (or what) has it; scientific accounts of what a human being is, as well as addressing empirical evidence of fetal consciousness; and analysis of the public policy implications given the epistemic status of pro-choice arguments. Given the issues discussed and that the arguments in critical focus are fairly new, the collection provides a novel, comprehensive, and rigorous analysis of contemporary pro-choice arguments.”
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Philosophy (General).
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Ethics.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Philosophy.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Ethics.
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Title Springer eBooks
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Display text Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9789400716018
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Uniform title Philosophy and Medicine,
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