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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Louis M Guenin |
| ISBN: | 9780521872690 0521872693 9780521694278 0521694272 |
| OCLC Number: | 191891594 |
| Description: | x, 273 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface -- 1. Preliminaries -- 1.1. Embryo use -- 1.2. The biological context -- 1.3. Affected beings and utilitarianism -- 1.4. A computational Waterloo -- 2. Epidosembryos -- 2.1. The universe of concern -- 2.2. The set of eligible subjects -- 2.3. The argument from nonenablement -- (a) Developmental potential and discretionary action -- (b) Permissibility of declining intrauterine transfer -- (c) Collective redistribution indefensible -- (d) No possible person corresponds to an epidosembryo -- (e) Epidosembryo personhood untenable -- (f) Fulfilling the collective duty of beneficence -- 2.4. Other defenses of embryo use distinguished -- 2.5. Two subsets, one justification -- 2.6. Replies to objections relating to potential -- 2.7. In service of humanitarian ends -- 3. Individuation -- 3.1. The ontological challenge -- 3.2. Identity -- 3.3. Understanding individuation -- 3.4. Arguments against early embryonic individuality -- (a) Demanding indivisibility -- (b) Embryo splitting and personal identity -- (c) Totipotency of blastomere components -- 3.5. Divisibility and personhood -- 3.6. Individuality further considered -- (a) Individuality within alternative ontologies -- (b) Categories and kinds of creatures -- (c) The embryo as organism -- (d) Other resources -- 3.7. Where matters remain -- 4. Respect for specific life -- 4.1. The species problem -- 4.2. Species as universals -- 4.3. Species as structures -- 4.4. Properties -- (a) Kripke's causal theory of reference -- (b) Putnam's theory of reference -- (c) Homeostatic property cluster natural kinds -- (d) Essentialism for species-corresponding kinds -- 4.5. Taxa -- 4.6. Bearers of morally crucial properties -- 4.7. Species partiality -- 4.8. Inferences within theistic ethics -- 5. Consensus -- 5.1. Public reason -- 5.2. Kantian morality -- 5.3. The Catholic magisterium -- (a) Two doctrines -- (b) The first nineteen centuries -- (c) Assertion of immediate animation -- (d) Prescinding from the timing of animation -- 5.4. Arguments concerning personhood -- (a) From genome to person -- (b) Lack of a nonarbitrary beginning -- (c) Possibility of a soul -- 5.5. Support for epidosembryo use -- (a) The social duties -- (b) Inferring divine will -- (c) Charity and assisted reproduction -- (d) Escape from a dilemma -- (e) Protecting a related stance -- 5.6. Recognizing common ground -- 6. Clones -- 6.1. Nonreprocloning -- 6.2. The teleological objection -- 6.3. Reprocloning -- (a) Hazards -- (b) Nonsafety objections -- (c) Considering probable incidence -- (d) Assessing the objections -- (e) Prohibition and privacy -- 6.4. Strategic prohibition of nonreprocloning -- 7. Analyzing alternatives -- 7.1. Putative noncomplicity -- 7.2. Studying the developed human -- 7.3. Procuring pluripotent cells -- 7.4. Parthenotes -- 8. Shaping norms -- 8.1. Gifts and consents -- 8.2. Public support -- 8.3. Oocyte contributions -- 8.4. Ectogenesis -- 8.5. Hybrids and chimeras -- 8.6. Pleonexia and patents -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Guenin presents a consensus justification for the use of donated embryos in service of humanitarian ends.
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'Louis Guenin's book, The Morality of Embryo Use, provides a carefully argued and scholarly exposition of the issues. As an ethics adviser on medical research, and also as a member of the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical School, Guenin is well-qualified to do this, and he brings to the task the resources of biology, genetics, logic and metaphysics.' Philosophy Read more...
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