Life before birth : the moral and legal status of embryos and fetuses / Bonnie Steinbock.
1992
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Author
Title
Life before birth : the moral and legal status of embryos and fetuses / Bonnie Steinbock.
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Call Number
K642 S74 1992
ISBN
0195054946 (alk. paper)
Description
x, 256 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)25131082
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-250) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
3
1
The Interest View
9
IConsciousness as Necessary and Sufficient for the Possession of Interests
14
IIThe Interests of Nonconscious Individuals
24
IIIFuture People
37
IVPotential People: Embryos and Fetuses
40
2
Abortion
43
ICriteria for Moral Status
46
IIThe Argument from Potential
59
IIIPossible People
71
IVThe Argument from Bodily Self-Determination
76
VThe Moral and Legal Significance of Viability
82
3
Beyond Abortion: The Legal Status of the Fetus
89
IRecovery for Prenatal Injury in Torts
91
IIPrenatal Wrongful Death
100
IIIThe Criminal Law
104
IVWrongful Life
114
4
Maternal-Fetal Conflict
127
IMoral Obligations to the Not-Yet-Born
128
IILegal Obligations to the Not-Yet-Born
133
5
Fetal Research
165
IFetal Research in America: History and Politics
167
IIFetal-Tissue Transplants
171
IIIResearch on the Living Fetus
186
6
Embryo Research and the New Reproductive Technologies
195
IIn Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer
197
IIEmbryos in Laboratory Research
203
IIIDispositional Problems
211
Notes
221
Index
251