The Beginning of Human Life
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-4247-7 (ISBN)
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.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.12.2010 |
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Zusatzinfo | XIV, 404 p. |
Verlagsort | Dordrecht |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik | |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Gynäkologie / Geburtshilfe | |
Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht | |
ISBN-10 | 90-481-4247-4 / 9048142474 |
ISBN-13 | 978-90-481-4247-7 / 9789048142477 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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