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The Prenatal Person: Ethics from Conception to Birth

The Prenatal Person: Ethics from Conception to Birth

by F O R D (Author)

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    Hardcover 2002

    $132.14
Synopsis

A host of ethical questions has arisen recently in response to the development of new reproductive technologies. This text helps students of theology, philosophy, and health studies, as well as lay readers, to find answers to these questions.In order to facilitate an informed discussion of the many delicate ethical issues, the book first provides readers with relevant medical and scientific information. It explains in a clear and simple way, for example, what is involved in human embryo and embryonic cell stem research, infertility and its treatments, and prenatal screening and diagnosis. It also explains how the metaphysical framework, in which both Christian and secular philosophers think, relates to the scientific facts and affects the ways in which they solve ethical problems. Throughout, the author takes a balanced approach, acknowledging his loyalty to Catholicism, yet freely exploring new options indicated by advancing biological science.

$132.14

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 274
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 05 Aug 2002
ISBN 10: 0631234918
ISBN 13: 9780631234913

Media Reviews
The Prenatal Person is a welcome contribution to dialogue between adherents of Christian and secular approaches to controversial bioethical issues about the beginning of human life. It is refreshing to find a Catholic scholar addressing these issues in a way that does not rely heavily on religious teachings that only a Catholic could be expected to accept. This is a book I will recommend to my students, so that they can consider a reasoned approach that is very different to my own. Peter Singer, Princeton University ...there are many useful insights and The Prenatal Person is helped by attention to detail in medical matters. The Tablet
Author Bio
Norman Ford is a catholic priest, philosopher and theologian at the ecumenical Melbourne College of Divinity. This is a college of the University of Melboume to which the most senior theologians in Australia are elected for their 'outstanding contribution to theological education'. He is also the Director of the Caroline Chisholm Centre for Health Ethics. He has published numerous articles on bioethics and human reproduction and a book Conception of the Human Individual in History, Philosophy and Science (1991) which was translated into a number of foreign languages. Although he is a catholic, Norman Ford is recognised for his ecumenical approach and for his in-depth knowledge of the science of bioethics and reproductive technologies.