A DEFENSE OF ABORTION by David Boonin, Douglas MacLean ( 9780521520355 )

Item Details

Title:

A DEFENSE OF ABORTION

By:

David Boonin, Douglas MacLean

Format:

Paperback

List price:

£27.00

Our price:

£23.63

Discount:

12.5% off

You save:

£3.37

ISBN 10:

0521520355

ISBN 13:

9780521520355

Availability:

Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.

Delivery rates

Stock:

Currently 0 available

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

4 November, 2002

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Philosophy & Public Policy

Pages:

368

Description:

The most thorough and detailed case for the moral permissibility of abortion yet published.

Synopsis:

David Boonin has written the most thorough and detailed case for the moral permissibility of abortion yet published. Critically examining a wide range of arguments that attempt to prove that every human fetus has a right to life, he shows that each of these arguments fails on its own terms. He then explains how even if the fetus does have a right to life, abortion can still be shown to be morally permissible on the critique of abortion's own terms. Finally he considers several pro-life arguments that do not depend on claims that the fetus has a right to life and concludes that these too are ultimately unsuccessful. This major book will be especially helpful to those teaching applied ethics and bioethics in philosophy departments or professional schools of law and medicine. It will interest students of women studies and general readers for whom abortion remains a high-profile issue.

Illustrations:

4 b/w illus.

Publication:

Imprint:

Cambridge University Press

Returns:

Returnable

Some other items by this author:

A DEFENSE OF ABORTION

BEYOND ROE

BEYOND ROE (HB)

COST-VALUE ANALYSIS IN HEALTH CARE (HB)