Screen LibraryUntangling twinning : what science tells us about the nature of human embryos /
"Scientists and philosophers have long struggled to answer the questions of when human life begins and when human life has inherent value. The phenomenon of identical (monozygotic) twinning presents a significant challenge to the view that human life and human personhood begin at conception. Th...
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University of Notre Dame Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Notre Dame, Indiana : |
| Publication Dates: | [2020] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Notre Dame studies in medical ethics and bioethics
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"Scientists and philosophers have long struggled to answer the questions of when human life begins and when human life has inherent value. The phenomenon of identical (monozygotic) twinning presents a significant challenge to the view that human life and human personhood begin at conception. The fact that a single embryo can split to generate two (or more) genetically identical embryos seems to defy the notion that prior to splitting an embryo can be a single human individual. In Untangling Twinning, Maureen Condic looks at the questions raised by human twinning based on a unique synthesis o |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 178 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780268107055 026810705X |
| Index Number: | RG133 |
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R-052 R321.4-05 |
| Call Number: | R-052/C745 |
| Contents: | When Does Human Life Begin? -- Totipotency -- What Is an Embryo? -- Twinning and the Beginning of Human Life -- Philosophical Concerns Regarding Twinning -- Philosophical Concerns Raised by Human Chimerism -- Why Scientists Are Confused about Embryos -- The Embryo in a Larger Context. |