New developments in reproductive technology have made headlines since the birth of the world's first in vitro fertilization baby in 1978. But is embryo experimentation ethically acceptable? What is the moral status of the early human embryo? And how should a democratic society deal with so controversial an issue, where conflicting views are based on differing religious and philosophical positions? These controversial questions are the subject of this book, which, as a current compendium of ideas and arguments on the subject, makes an original contribution of major importance to this debate. Peter Singer is the author of many books, including Practical Ethics (CUP, 1979), Marx (Hill & Wang, 1980), and Should the Baby Live? (co-authored with Helga Kuhse, Oxford U.P., 1986).
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"...an excellent blend of the ethical and legal conundrums raised by the topics, based upon the most current scientific knowledge and processes involved." Robert C. Cefalo, The Hastings Center Report
"I hope anyone who is going to have to vote on legislation [related to embryo experimentation] in the near future will read all of this book, and consider it thoroughly. It is, both factually and in terms of values, the most clear, comprehensive and up-to-date consideration of embryo experimentation yet to appear, and written with great authority." Mary Warnock
"...a useful introduction, particularly to the scientific and political/legal dimensions of embryo experimentation." Thomas G. Walsh, International Journal on the Unity of the Sciences
"I hope anyone who is going to have to vote on legislation [related to embryo experimentation] in the near future will read all of this book, and consider it thoroughly. It is, both factually and in terms of values, the most clear, comprehensive and up-to-date consideration of embryo experimentation yet to appear, and written with great authority." Mary Warnock
"...a useful introduction, particularly to the scientific and political/legal dimensions of embryo experimentation." Thomas G. Walsh, International Journal on the Unity of the Sciences
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The in vitro fertilization of a human egg made it technically possible for the very early human embryo to be used in research, and initiated controversy about whether such research is morally acceptable. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vitro embryo research, irreversible individuality, human embryo experimentation, numerical continuity, pronuclear eggs, new human individual, consequentialist version, imprisonment for four years, potentiality argument, penalty units, human embryo research, chimera formation, autonomous consent, laboratory embryo, cleavage arrest, human conceptus, full moral status, new human life, human gametes, parthenogenetic development, reproductive research, child destruction, embryo biopsy, donor gametes, embryo freezing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Senate Select Committee, Waller Committee, Karen Dawson, United States, Human Embryo Experimentation Bill, Declaration of Helsinki, Senate Hansard Report, Stephen Buckle, Oxford University Press, Academic Press, Senator Michael Tate, Tate Committee, Medical Research Ethics Committee, Monash University, Biology of Reproduction, Cambridge University Press, Crimes Act, Disposition of Embryos Produced, Harvard University Press, Human Genetics, Louis Waller, Shadow Cabinet, Victorian Government Printer, Warnock Committee New!
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The in vitro fertilization of a human egg made it technically possible for the very early human embryo to be used in research, and initiated controversy about whether such research is morally acceptable. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vitro embryo research, irreversible individuality, human embryo experimentation, numerical continuity, pronuclear eggs, new human individual, consequentialist version, imprisonment for four years, potentiality argument, penalty units, human embryo research, chimera formation, autonomous consent, laboratory embryo, cleavage arrest, human conceptus, full moral status, new human life, human gametes, parthenogenetic development, reproductive research, child destruction, embryo biopsy, donor gametes, embryo freezing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Senate Select Committee, Waller Committee, Karen Dawson, United States, Human Embryo Experimentation Bill, Declaration of Helsinki, Senate Hansard Report, Stephen Buckle, Oxford University Press, Academic Press, Senator Michael Tate, Tate Committee, Medical Research Ethics Committee, Monash University, Biology of Reproduction, Cambridge University Press, Crimes Act, Disposition of Embryos Produced, Harvard University Press, Human Genetics, Louis Waller, Shadow Cabinet, Victorian Government Printer, Warnock Committee New!
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- Reproductive Technologies (Current Controversies) by Carol Wekesser on 4 pages
- Human Conception In Vitro by Author Unknown on page 25, page 52, and page 88
- Contemporary Issues in Bioethics (with InfoTrac ) by Tom L. Beauchamp on page 51, and page 63
- Clinical in Vitro Fertilization by Carl Wood on page 52, and page 89
- Ethics and Regulation of Clinical Research: Second Edition by Robert J. Levine on page 123, and page 182
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- Unsanctifying Human Life: Essays on Ethics by Helga Kuhse on 5 pages
- The Ethics Of Artificial Uteruses: Implications For Reproduction And Abortion (Ashgate Studies in Applied Ethics) by Stephen Coleman on 5 pages
- Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics by Peter Singer on 4 pages
- The Human Embryo Research Debates: Bioethics in the Vortex of Controversy by Ronald M. Green on 4 pages
- The Prenatal Person: Ethics from Conception to Birth by Norman M. Ford on 4 pages
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