The Facts of Life - Science and the Abortion Controversy

An accessible, balanced, and non-polemical approach to the abortion controversy. Focuses on fetal development of the cerebral cortex and its implications on traditional definitions of "humanness".

Summary

An accessible, balanced, and non-polemical approach to the abortion controversy. Focuses on fetal development of the cerebral cortex and its implications on traditional definitions of "humanness".

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The book is concise, beautiful and intellectually high-powered, a reviewer's delight and the realization of every author's hope ... a volume which will keep readers from wool-gathering, no small feat with such dense, affect-laden material.

Product details

• Authors: Harold J. Morowitz, Morowitz Harold J., James Trefil, James S. Trefil
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.1994
• EAN: 9780195090468
• ISBN: 978-0-19-509046-8
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 226 g
• Illustrations: line drawings
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; MEDICAL / Ethics, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, MEDICAL / Gynecology & Obstetrics, MEDICAL / Physiology, MEDICAL / Reproductive Medicine & Technology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Abortion & Birth Control, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Ethical issues: abortion & birth control, Gynaecology and obstetrics, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Human Growth & Development, Ethical issues: abortion and birth control, Human growth and development