"Bioethicists have achieved consensus on two ideas pertaining to beginning of life issues: (1) persons are those beings capable of higher-order cognition, or self-consciousness, and (2) it is impermissible to kill only persons. As a consequence, a consensus is reached regarding …
This concise introduction to science and religion focuses on Christianity and modern Western science (the epicenter of issues in science and religion in the West) with a concluding chapter on Muslim and Jewish Science and Religion. This book also invites the reader into the rele…
This study of the abortion controversy in the United States argues that moral positions on abortion are intimately tied to views on sexual behaviour, the care of children, family life, technology, and the importance of the individual.
During the past several decades, the fetus has been diversely represented in political debates, medical textbooks and journals, personal memoirs and autobiographies, museum exhibits and mass media, and civil and criminal law. Ourselves Unborn argues that the meanings people attr…
Traces how Americans from widely different backgrounds have fought over the legal identity, physiological condition, social value, cultural significance, and political status of the human fetus.--from publisher's description.