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Author
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 Guenin, Louis M., 1950-
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Title
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The morality of embryo use / Louis M. Guenin.
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Imprint
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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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Descr.
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x, 273 p. ; 24 cm.
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Call Number
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BJ1469 .G84 2008 -Regular Loan
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Bibliogr.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-268) and index.
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Contents
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Preliminaries. Embryo use ; The biological context ; Affected beings and utilitarianism ; A computational Waterloo -- Epidosembryos. The universe of concern ; The set of eligible subjects ; The argument from nonenablement ; Other defenses of embryo use distinguished ; Two subsets, one justification ; Replies to objections relating to potential ; In service of humanitarian ends -- Individuation. The ontological challenge ; Identity ; Understanding individuation ; Arguments against early embryonic individuality ; Divisibility and personhood -- Individuality further considered ; Where matters remain -- Respect for specific life. The species problems ; Species as universals ; Species as structures ; Properties ; Taxa ; Bearers of morally crucial properties ; Species partiality ; Inference within theistic ethics -- Consensus. Public reason ; Kantian morality ; The Catholic magisterium ; Arguments concerning personhood ; Support for epidosembryo use ; Recognizing common ground -- Clones. Nonreprocloning ; The teleological objection ; Reprocloning ; Strategic prohibition of nonreprocloning -- Analyzing alternatives. Putative noncomplicity ; Studying the developed human ; Procuring pluripotent cells ; Parthenotes -- Shaping norms. Gifts and consents ; Public support ; Oocyte contributions ; Ectogenesis ; Hybrids and chimeras ; Pleonexia and patents.
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Abstract
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Is it permissible to use a human embryo in stem cell research, or in general as a means for benefit of others? Acknowledging each embryo as an object of moral concern, Louis M.Guenin argues that it is morally permissible to decline intrauterine transfer of an embryo formed outside the body, and that from this permission and the duty of beneficence, there follows a consensus justification for using donated embryos in service of humanitarian ends. He then proceeds to show how this justification commands assent even within moral and religious views commonly thought to oppose embryo use. Beneath his moral reasoning lies a carefully constructed metaphysical foundation incorporating accounts of the ontology of development, embryos, and species. He also incisively discusses nonreprocloning, reprocloning, ectogenesis, and related scientific frontiers. This compelling philosophical study will interest all concerned to understand virtue and obligation in the relief of suffering.-publisher description.
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Subject
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Life and death, Power over.
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Human embryo -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Human embryo -- Therapeutic use -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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