The ethics of pregnancy, abortion and childbirth : exploring moral choices in childbearing / Helen Watt.
| Author/creator | Watt, Helen, 1962- author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | New York : Routledge, 2016. |
| Description | 1 online resource (viii, 157 pages). |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge annals of bioethics ; 16 Routledge annals of bioethics ; 16. ^A701062 |
| Contents | Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Aim of this Book; Pregnancy and Pathology; Sharing of Parts; Dependency and Status; 1 The Uni-Personal Pregnancy; Human Personal Status; Are We Our Bodies?; Are We Our Experiences?; Overlapping Subjects of Experience; Moral Status and Desires; Interests and Brain Damage; Objective Interests and Bodily Kinds; Human Equality; When Does the Human Individual Begin?; Living Wholes and Living Parts; Identical Twinning; Potential and Pregnancy; Human-Looking Fetuses (and Embryos?); Recognizing Moral Status. |
| Contents | Moral Status: What Are the Implications for Pregnancy?2 The Neighborly Pregnancy; What Kind of Neighbor?; Bodily Attacks; Right Not to Be a Parent; Support and Violence: Strangers and Samaritans; Support and Violence: Parents and Children; Women: Unjustly Disadvantaged?; Functional Support; Pregnancy as a Disease; Right to Control One's Body; 3 The Maternal Pregnancy; Becoming Pregnant: Rights Conferred; Pregnancy and Abortion in Comatose Women; The Right to Mother; All Roles Chosen?; Acknowledging Maternity: Pregnancy and Birth after Rape; Childbirth and Childcare; Pregnancy and Control. |
| Contents | Pregnancy and Guardianship; Prenatal Tests; Maternal and Maternal-Fetal Treatments; Treatments in Pregnancy-Conjoined Twin Analogy; Duties to Commence Gestation; Conjoined Twins Continued; Vital Conflicts: What Are the Principles?; Double-Effect Reasoning; 'Unintended Morally Determinative Aspects'; Bodily Respect; Maternal-Fetal Conflicts Continued; Life-Threatening Pregnancies; Ectopic Pregnancy; Early Delivery; 4 The Spousal Pregnancy; Fetal Reduction; Wanted Children; Receiving or Producing; Good Enough Parents; Donor Pregnancies; Accepting Donor Embryos ('Embryo Adoption'). |
| Contents | Pregnancy, Intimacy and Society; Acceptance of Fertility; Sexual Conception: Of What Kind?; Female and Male Parenthood; Male Support of Pregnancy; Conclusion; Appendix: Pregnancy and Lethal Fetal Anomaly; Bibliography; Index. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 12, 2016). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Watt, Helen. Ethics of Pregnancy, Abortion and Childbirth : Exploring Moral Choices in Childbearing. : Taylor and Francis, ©2016 9781138188082 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781317283836 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 131728383X (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781315642710 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1315642719 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781317283843 |
| ISBN | 1317283848 |
| ISBN | 9781317283829 |
| ISBN | 1317283821 |
| Stock number | 9781317283836 Ingram Content Group |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |