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Embryo Experimentation

Embryo Experimentation( )
Editor: Singer, Peter
Kuhse, Helga
Buckle, Stephen
Dawson, Karen
Kasimba, Pascal
ISBN:978-0-521-43588-8
Publication Date:Nov 1992
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $74.95
Book Description:

Is experimentation ethically acceptable? What is the moral status of the early human embryo? And how should a democratic society deal with so controversial an issue? These controversial questions are considered in a compendium of ideas and arguments on the subject.

Book Details
Pages:280
Detailed Subjects: Medical / Embryology
Medical / Ethics
Medical / General
Science / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):17.8 x 25.4 x 1.9 cm
Book Weight:0.789 Kilograms
Author Biography
(Editor)
Born in Australia, Singer received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Melbourne and, in 1971, his B. Phil from University College, Oxford. During his teaching career, he has held positions in philosophy in England, the United States, and Australia. While a student at Oxford, Singer was deeply affected by a group of people who had become vegetarians for ethical reasons. Joining their commitment to the rights of animals, he wrote Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals (1975), a persuasively reasoned, yet clearly understandable defense of the rights of animals. Singer's vocal concern for the proper treatment of animals has triggered a new appreciation of the anthropocentric bias of traditional Western moral philosophy; other philosophers have followed his lead. Complaining that ethical theorists have focused too intensely upon the rights, responsibilities, and treatment of humans, Singer dubs this malady "speciesism" and calls for a broader moral perspective---one that includes a sensitivity to the needs and concerns of other sentient creatures. 020



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