Research Catalog

Title

Embryo experimentation / edited by Peter Singer ... [et al.].

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.

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Details

Additional Authors

Singer, Peter, 1946-

Description

xvi, 263 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Is embryo experimentation ethically acceptable and what is the moral status of the early human embryo? These and other controversial questions are the subject of this book, which, as a current compendium of ideas and arguments on the subject, makes a contribution of interest on this debate.

Subject

• National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia)
• Waller Committee
• Ethics, Medical
• Research
• Fertilization in Vitro
• Embryo, Mammalian
• Fertilization in vitro, Human > Moral and ethical aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction : an outline of scientific aspects of embryo research / Karen Dawson -- Why do research on human pre-embryos? / Alan Trounson -- A scientific examination of some speculations about continuing human pre-embryo research / Karen Dawson -- Introduction : the nature of ethical argument / Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer -- Fertilization and moral status : a scientific perspective ; Segmentation and moral status : a scientific perspective / Karen Dawson -- Individuals, humans and persons : the issue of moral status / Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer -- IVF technology and the argument from potential / Peter Singer and Karen Dawson -- Arguing from potential / Stephen Buckle -- Who is the subject of research? / Beth Gaze and Karen Dawson.
• Is IVF research a threat to women's autonomy? / Mary Anne Warren -- Introduction : public policy and law : possibilities and limitations / Beth Gaze -- Community control of IVF and embryo experimentation / Max Charlesworth -- IVF regulation : the search for a legal basis / Pascal Kasimba -- Self-regulation and embryo experimentation in Australia : a critique / Pascal Kasimba -- Public policy in a pluralist society / R.M. Hare -- Biological processes and moral events / Stephen Buckle -- Embryo experimentation : the path and problems of legislation in Victoria / Beth Gaze and Pascal Kasimba -- The syngamy debate : when precisely does an embryo begin? / Stephen Buckle, Karen Dawson and Peter Singer.

ISBN

0521383595

LCCN

^^^89025220^

OCLC

• 20561475
• SCSB-10479764

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library