Controlling Our Reproductive Destiny : A Technological and Philosophical Perspective (New Liberal Arts Series)

Kaplan, Lawrence J.; Tong, Rosemarie

ISBN 10: 0262611198 / ISBN 13: 9780262611190

Published by The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1996

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Cover with lightly worn bottom corners and contents in very good clean condition. Highly illustrated with text-figures.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Controlling Our Reproductive Destiny : A Technological and Philosophical Perspective (New Liberal Arts Series)
• Publisher: The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262611198
• ISBN 13: 9780262611190
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Paperback Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy & Ethics

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Synopsis

Controlling Our Reproductive Destiny covers today's revolution in reproduction-controlling and reproduction-aiding technologies. It focuses on the ways in which science can now provide real procreative choices, while at the same time giving equal treatment to ethical, legal, and social dimensions of these advances.

Introductory chapters discuss procreative options, present an ethical and legal framework for evaluating reproduction-controlling and reproduction-aiding technologies, and describe the human reproductive system. The authors then present methods of contraception, sterilization, abortion, fertility and infertility, artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer, and contracted motherhood. Throughout, they provide a comprehensive discussion of the philosophical implications of new developments in these areas.

A New Liberal Arts book

About the Author

Rosemarie Tong is Samuel and Mary Thatcher Professor of Philosophy and Medical Humanities at Davidson College.