Ethical Issues In The New Reproductive Technologies

by Richard T. Hull (Editor)

Overview

""This book provides many potentially interesting hours of discussion for college courses in ethics and morals. Health care professionals, particularly those who counsel infertile couples, will find it an accurate, up-to-date reference source book. Infertile couples, their friends, and their families will find, from the many different viewpoints expressed, guides for personal and societal decisions." - review of the first edition in Science Books and Films

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781591023005
Publisher:	Globe Pequot Publishing
Publication date:	07/05/2005
Edition description:	2ND
Pages:	373
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Richard T. Hull is professor emeritus of philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo; the author of numerous articles on ethical theory; and the editor of Ethical Issues in the New Reproductive Technologies; William H. Werkmeister, Martin Heidegger on the Way; and A Quarter Century of Value Inquiry: Presidential Addresses of the American Society of Value Inquiry.

Editorial Reviews

"This book provides many potentially interesting hours of discussion for college courses in ethics and morals. Health care professionals, particularly those who counsel infertile couples, will find it an accurate, up-to-date reference source book. Infertile couples, their friends, and their families will find, from the many different viewpoints expressed, guides for personal and societal decisions.” - review of the first edition in Science Books and Films

From the Publisher

An anthology of recent (reprinted) ethical perspectives on such issues as artificial insemination, fertility drugs, embryo transfer, gestational surrogacy, fetal monitoring, and nonreproductive uses of fetuses. A case study and introductory discussion begin each section, and the overall introduction by editor Hull pinpoints major areas of moral concern. Could serve as a companion to an introductory ethics or bioethics text. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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