The Beginning of Human Life - new book

EAN (ISBN-13): 9789401582575
Publishing year: 3
Publisher: Springer Netherlands

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ISBN/EAN: 9789401582575

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978-94-015-8257-5
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Book author: beller
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Author: Frauke Beller; R. Weir
Title: The Beginning of Human Life
Publisher: Springer; Springer Netherland
404 Pages
Publishing year: 2013-03-09
Dordrecht; NL
Language: English
149,79 € (DE)
154,00 € (AT)
177,00 CHF (CH)
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EA; E107; eBook; Nonbooks, PBS / Philosophie/Allgemeines, Lexika; Ethik und Moralphilosophie; Verstehen; Embryo; contraception; fetus; health; morality; pain; transplantation; C; Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics; Gynecology; Medical Law; Religion and Philosophy; Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe; Recht des Gesundheitswesens und Medizinrecht; BC

I. General Perspectives.- Medical Aspects of the Beginning of Individual Lives.- The Beginning of Full Moral Standing.- Legal Aspects of the Beginning of Human Life.- Development of the Human Brain: The Emergence of the Neural Substrate for Pain Perception and Conscious Experience.- The Moral Significance of Brain-Life Criteria.- II. Assisted Reproductive Technology.- Assisted Reproductive Technologies of the 1980s and 1990s: The State of the Art and a Look at the Future.- Human Reproductive Technology: Why All the Moral Fuss?.- Gestational Surrogacy and the Health Care Provider.- III. Contraception and Abortion.- The Beginning of Human Life: Contraceptive Implications.- Abortion: A Public Health Perspective.- Abortion and Contraception: The Moral Significance of Fertilization.- Contraception and Abortion: Legal Distinctions and Dynamics.- IV. Fetal Research and Fetal Tissue.- The Use of Human Fetal Tissue for Research and Therapy.- Restriction and Suppression of Fetal and Pre-Embryo Research, 1974–1990.- Two Problems in Embryo Research.- Fetal Tissue Transplantation and Women.- Fetal Tissue Transplantation: An Institutional Review Board Perspective.- V. Medical, Ethical, and Legal Aspects of Maternal/Fetal Relationships.- Primary Care Fetal Medicine.- Court-Ordered Cesarean Delivery.- Pregnant Drug Addicts.- Women’s Rights versus the Protection of Fetuses.- The Mother and Fetus Union: What God Has Put Together, Let No Law Put Asunder?.- Coercion for Fetal Therapy?.- VI. Rights and Obligations Related to the Beginning of Individual Human Lives.- When Care Cannot Cure: Medical Problems in Seriously Ill Babies.- Transplantation and the Anencephalic Newborn.- Life-and-Death Decisions in the Midst of Uncertainty.- When is Medical Treatment Futile?.- Treatment Decisionsfor Premature and Disabled Newborns: Hard Cases Make Bad Law.