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" Persons, moral worth, and embryos : "
edited by Stephen Napier.
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BL
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689288
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b511477
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Persons, moral worth, and embryos : : a critical analysis of pro-choice arguments /\ edited by Stephen Napier.
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| Publication Statement
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Dordrecht ;New York :: Springer,, [2011]
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, ©2011
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Catholic studies in bioethics
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Philosophy and medicine,; v. 111
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xiv, 283 pages ;; 24 cm.
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940071601X
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: 9789400716018
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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What are persons? What is valuable? -- Philosophical considerations -- I was once a fetus: that is why abortion is wrong -- Brain life and the argument from potential: affirming the ontological status of human embryos and fetuses -- Human being, a person of substance: a response to Dean Stretton -- Concept of person in bioethics -- Abortion and virtue ethics -- Embryos, four-dimensionalism, and moral status -- Christian hypothesis -- Fetal interests, fetal persons, and human goods -- Scientific considerations -- Fetal pains and fetal brains -- Biological definition of the human embryo -- Perspectives from law and political philosophy -- Public reason and abortion revisited -- Abortion, sexual markets and the law.
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Abortion-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Bioethics.
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Abortion, Induced-- ethics.
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Beginning of Human Life.
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Personhood.
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| Dewey Classification
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179.76
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HQ767.15.P47 2011
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W3PH609 v.111 2011
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HQ 767.15
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Napier, Stephen E.
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