The Ethics of Reproductive Technology - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195074351 ISBN 13: 9780195074352

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1992

Synopsis

This timely anthology helps students examine the normative and conceptual issues raised by recent innovations in human reproduction, including in vitro fertilization, embryo transfer, and surrogate motherhood. Broad-based and interdisciplinary, it gathers together essays of remarkable depth and philosophical sophistication by legal scholars, health care professionals, scientists, and theologians as well as philosophers, paying particular attention to women's perspectives and to issues that concern women. Organized around issues rather than techniques and featuring unusually clear introductions to current ethical and legal debates, the text sets the conceptual framework for addressing issues of prudence, morality, and public policy while providing the broadest possible context for the readings and teasing out the connections among them.

Designed for a wide range of courses and for students at many levels, the anthology provides both a firm grounding in the basics--the biology of human reproduction, the specific procedures involved in various reproductive techniques, and the psychology of infertility--and a broad range of readings that provide the depth for more advanced thinking. Other unique features are a section on professional responsibilities that will appeal to more scientifically oriented students, a detailed study of the Baby M case that raises profound questions about the legal treatment of reproduction, and an annotated reading list that guides students past today's welter of popular ephemera to many important but lesser-known sources.

About this title

About the Author:

Kenneth D. Alpern is at De Paul University.

Review:

"Superb! Thoughtful and up-to-date."--Doug Kenward, Moody Bible Institute

"Very well done and well balanced on the readings."--Scott Rae, Talbot Seminary

"Excellent introduction to a set of ethical problems which will only increase in time."--Manuel Davenport, Texas AandM University

"Clear and straightforward. Written simply enough for first year students to understand, yet doesn't short-change the complexity of the issues."--Nancy L. Pruitt, Colgate University

"An excellent collection of papers on a tremendously important subject. The quality of the selections is very high, the structure of the text effective, and the introductions clear and helpful."--Carl Wellman, Washington University

"Excellent cross-section of the relevant issues in this area of health care ethics."--R. de Good, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire

"Very good collection, covers a wide range of viewpoints, up-to-date. Also well designed and printed."--Carol Tauer, College of Saint Catherine

"A strong selection of materials."--David E. Schrader, Washington and Jefferson College

"A very worthwhile volume...I shall encourage its use by students."--Anne E. Patrick, Carleton College

"Excellent choice of articles to make up this anthology. I especially appreciate the religious contributions since they do represent a conditional of this topic."--Albert J. Smith, Wheaton College

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0195074351
• ISBN 13: 9780195074352
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Alpern Kenneth D.