Why have children? : the ethical debate / Christine Overall.
Why have children? : the ethical debate / Christine Overall.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012.
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N176/81
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English
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Physical content
xiii, 253 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction -- Reproductive freedom, autonomy and reproductive rights -- When prospective parents disagree -- Deontological reasons for having children -- Consequentialist reasons for having children -- Not a "better never to have been" -- An obligation not to procreate? -- Illness, impairment, and...
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
c2012.
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Summary
"In contemporary Western society, people are more often called upon to justify the choice not to have children than they are to supply reasons for having them. In this book, Christine Overall maintains that the burden of proof should be reversed: that the choice to have children calls for more careful justification and reasoning than the choice not...
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Why have children? : the ethical debate / Christine Overall.
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Basic bioethics.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-245) and index.
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Electronic resource $z 9780262302050.
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Date Copyright
c2012.
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N176/81
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74VvoVa5wjNb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvoVa5wjNb
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ISBN
0262016982 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780262016988 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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176
MMS ID
991013239579702626
