Title | The Beginning of Human Life [electronic resource] / edited by Fritz K. Beller, Robert F. Weir |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1994 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8257-5 |
Descript | XIV, 404 p. online resource |
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, 1974โ1990 -- 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 -- Womenโs 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 Decisions for Premature and Disabled Newborns: Hard Cases Make Bad Law