Conceiving the Embryo

Ethics, Law and Practice in Human Embryology

Edited by Donald Evans and Neil Pickering

This volume of essays, together with its companion Creating the Child: The Ethics, Law and Practice of Assisted Procreation (Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1996, ISBN 90-411-0207-8) is the result of a concerted action in the BIOMED programme of the European Commission, which was coordinated by the Editor. Clinicians, lawyers and philosophers explore the theoretical and practical problems presented by the new technologies in assisted human reproduction in Eastern, Central and Western Europe. The central question of the status of the human embryo is examined in the light of recent biological discoveries and cultural and legal dissonance within and between the various countries in Europe.

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Editor:

Donald Evans

Neil Pickering

Category:

Human Rights and Humanitarian Law - Health Law

BIC2:

Medical & healthcare law, International humanitarian law

ISBN13:

9789041102089

Publication Year:

1996

Edition info:

Version:

Hardback

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

376 pp.

Imprint:

Martinus Nijhoff

Language:

English

Table of contents

List of Figures.
Introduction.
1. Conceiving the Embryo; D. Evans.
Part I: Biological Facts and Moral Values.
2. Assisted Conception in the Human – the Embryological View; S. Fishel.
3. Pro-Attitudes to Pre-Embryos; D. Evans.
4. The Status of the Embryo – More Place for Moral Intuitions; J.- M. Thévoz.
5. The Human Embryo and the Relativity of Biological Individuality; A. Mauron.
6. Human Individuation and Moral Justification; M. Evans.
Part 2: Moral Values in Social and Cultural Context.
7. Contraception and the Moral Status of the Early Human Embryo; S. Beasley.
8. Talking About Embryos; Z. Szawarski.
9. Cultural Pro-Attitudes, Reproductive Ethics and Embryo Protection; V. Prodanov.
Part 3: Personhood and The Human Embryo.
10. Is the Human Embryo a Person? No; M. Mori.
11. Human Embryology and the Criterion of Moral Standing; A. Przyłuska-Fiszer.
12. Embryos as Moral Subjects and Limits of Responsibility; K.W. Ruyter.
13. The Moral Status of the Pre-Personal Human Being: the Argument from Potential Reconsidered; S. Holm.
14. The Idea of Brain-Birth in Connection with Artificial Abortion; J. Kovács.
Part 4: The Legal Status of the Human Foetus.
15. The Legal Status of the Human Foetus. A Comparative Analysis; W. Lang.
16. Legal Status of the Human Embryo: Overview of the Hungarian Legislation; J. Sándor.
17. The Legal Status of the Embryo in Poland; E. Zielińska.
Part 5: Human Embryo Research.
18. What Developments of Human Embryo Research Would be Philosophically Challenging? A. Mauron.
19. Research on Human Embryos; P. Dalla-Vorgia.
20. The Regulation of Embryo Research under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act of 1990; A.J. Klotzko.
21. Procuring Gametes for Research and Therapy; D. Evans.
Part 6: Legislation Concerning Human Embryology.
22. Legal Consensus and Divergence in European Legislation in the Area of Human Embryology – Room for Harmonisation? L. Nielsen.
23. The Embryo in French Legislation; C. Byk.
24. The Use of Gametes and Zygotes in German Law; E. Deutsch.
25. Spanish Legislation on Uses of Gametes and Zygotes (Pre-Embryos); J.V. Martínez.
Index.

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