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The Beginning of Human Life

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  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. Fritz K. Beller

    1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of Iowa, USA

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  2. Robert F. Weir

    1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of Iowa, USA

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. General Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Medical Aspects of the Beginning of Individual Lives

      • Fritz K. Beller, Gail P. Zlatnik
      Pages 3-17

    3. The Beginning of Full Moral Standing

      • Robert M. Veatch
      Pages 19-33

    4. Legal Aspects of the Beginning of Human Life

      • Bernard M. Dickens
      Pages 35-48

    5. Development of the Human Brain: The Emergence of the Neural Substrate for Pain Perception and Conscious Experience

      • Rodrigo O. Kuljis
      Pages 49-56

    6. The Moral Significance of Brain-Life Criteria

      • Hans-Martin Sass
      Pages 57-70

  3. Assisted Reproductive Technology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
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    2. Assisted Reproductive Technologies of the 1980s and 1990s: The State of the Art and a Look at the Future

      • Ricardo H. Asch
      Pages 73-88

    3. Human Reproductive Technology: Why All the Moral Fuss?

      • H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.
      Pages 89-100

    4. Gestational Surrogacy and the Health Care Provider

      • Karen H. Rothenberg
      Pages 101-113

  4. Contraception and Abortion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
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    2. The Beginning of Human Life: Contraceptive Implications

      • Luigi Mastroianni Jr.
      Pages 117-127

    3. Abortion: A Public Health Perspective

      • Allan Rosenfield, Hillary Kunins
      Pages 129-144

    4. Abortion and Contraception: The Moral Significance of Fertilization

      • Helga Kuhse, Peter Singer
      Pages 145-161

    5. Contraception and Abortion: Legal Distinctions and Dynamics

      • Rebecca J. Cook
      Pages 163-178

  5. Fetal Research and Fetal Tissue

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
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    2. The Use of Human Fetal Tissue for Research and Therapy

      • Kenneth J. Ryan
      Pages 181-187

    3. Restriction and Suppression of Fetal and Pre-Embryo Research, 1974–1990

      • John C. Fletcher
      Pages 189-206

    4. Two Problems in Embryo Research

      • John A. Robertson
      Pages 207-223
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About this book

Progress in biomedical science has called for an international discussion of the medical, ethical, and legal problems that confront physicians, medical researchers, infertile couples, pregnant women, and parents of premature or disabled infants. In addition, the unprecedented technological developments in obstetrical, perinatal, and neonatal medicine in recent years have indicated a need for an international forum for interdisciplinary dialogue regarding the definition of early human life, the neurological development of early human life, the value of early human life, the obligations for its protection and prolongation, and the limits to these obligations.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of Iowa, USA

    Fritz K. Beller, Robert F. Weir

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Beginning of Human Life

  • Editors: Fritz K. Beller, Robert F. Weir

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8257-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1994

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2165-1Published: 30 November 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4247-7Published: 01 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8257-5Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 404

  • Topics: Ethics, Gynecology, Medical Law

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