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Making Babies: Is There a Right to Have Children?
Mary Warnock
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Hardcover. Mary Warnock steers a clear path through the web of complex issues underlying the issues surrounding the right to have children. She begins by analysing what it means to claim something as a "right", and goes on to discuss the cases of different groups of people. Num Pages: 126 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; MFKC; PDR; PSAD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 238. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear. Dustwrapper has some minor edge wear but remains very good
The development of new reproductive technologies has raised urgent questions and debates about how and by whom these treatments should be controlled. On the one hand individuals and groups have claimed access to assisted reproduction as a right, and some have also claimed that this access should be available free of charge. As well as clinically infertile heterosexual couples, this right has been claimed by single women, gay couples, post-menopausal women, and couples who wish to delay having children for various reasons. Others have argued that a desire to have children does not make it a human ... Read more
The development of new reproductive technologies has raised urgent questions and debates about how and by whom these treatments should be controlled. On the one hand individuals and groups have claimed access to assisted reproduction as a right, and some have also claimed that this access should be available free of charge. As well as clinically infertile heterosexual couples, this right has been claimed by single women, gay couples, post-menopausal women, and couples who wish to delay having children for various reasons. Others have argued that a desire to have children does not make it a human ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
126
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780192803344
SKU
KKD0006199
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99-3
About Mary Warnock
Mary Warnock's work in academic philosophy includes the books Imagination, Memory, and Existentialism. Much of her career was spent at Oxford University, and she ras later Mistress of Girton College Cambridge. She was made a life peer in 1985, and chaired the Committee of Enquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology, whose report formed the basis of legislation in the UK. ... Read more
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This is practical philosophy as it should be written: concise, elegant and comprehensible.
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