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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780198766780 |
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0198766785 |
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9780198806608 |
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0198806604 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
344.04192 |
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GRE.A |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Greasley, Kate, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Arguments about abortion : |
| Remainder of title |
personhood, morality, and law / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Kate Greasley, Lecturer in Law, University College London. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First edition. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
UK, |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
OUP, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2017. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
ix, 269 pages ; |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-266) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
What should abortion argument be about? -- Gestation as good samaritanism -- Abortion as justified homicide -- Analogical arguments and sex equality -- Personhood thresholds, arbitrariness, and 'punctualism' -- Dualism, substantial identity, and the precautionary principle -- Gradualism and human embodiment -- Human equality and the significance of birth -- Regulating abortion -- Selective abortion : sex and disability -- Matters of conscience. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Does the morality of abortion depend on the moral status of the human fetus? Must the law of abortion presume an answer to the question of when personhood begins? Can a law which permits late abortion but not infanticide be morally justified? These are just some of the questions this book sets out to address. With an extended analysis of the moral and legal status of abortion, Kate Greasley offers an alternative account to the reputable arguments of Ronald Dworkin and Judith Jarvis Thomson and instead brings the philosophical notion of 'personhood' to the foreground of this debate. Structured in three parts, the book will (I) consider the relevance of prenatal personhood for the moral and legal evaluation of abortion; (II) trace the key features of the conventional debate about when personhood begins and explore the most prominent issues in abortion ethics literature: the human equality problem and the difference between abortion and infanticide; and (III) examine abortion law and regulation as well as the differing attitudes to selective abortion. The book concludes with a snapshot into the current controversy surrounding the scope of the right to conscientiously object to participation in abortion provision --Flap of cover. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Abortion |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Abortion |
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Book |
