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 …

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 …

What claims to protection can be asserted by a human fetus? That question, familiar to
philosophy and religion, has long haunted law as well. While the philosophical and …

First published in 1985. Medical ethics is a vitally important subject and currently a highly
controversial one. Recent cases have highlighted both the intellectual and moral challenges …

Child Versus Childmaker investigates a'person-affecting'approach to ethical choice. A form
of consequentialism, this approach is intended to capture the idea that agents ought both do …

In this paper a distinguished Anglican theologian argues that the claim to absolute
protection for the human embryo'from the beginning'is a novelty in the Western Christian and …

Saving lives versus taking lives: These are the stark terms in which the public regards
human embryo research—a battleground of extremes, a war between science and ethics …

Dramatic scientific breakthroughs in medical technology have revolutionized the physician's
diagnostic prowess in the art of obstetrics. Scientific procedures now reveal previously …

This book offers a comprehensive and clinically practical approach to ethics in the everyday
practice of obstetrics and gynecology. The topics the authors address include: contraception …

Taking a critical look at some of the recent controls over human life, health, and death,
Fletcher draws a vivid picture of contemporary biological needs and ethical responsibility …