Controversies on the Beginning of Human Life

Kurjak - Controversies on the Beginning of Human Life
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Authors/editors: Asim Kurjak and Frank A Chervenak
ISBN: 978-81-8448-428-1
Page count: 250
Publisher: Jaypee (India)
Publication year: 2008

On September 29, 2007, the Academy of Medical Sciences of Croatia, World Academy of Art and Science and the International Academy of Perinatal Medicine sponsored a symposium on "Facts and Doubts about the beginning of Human Life". This book recreates the special character of the symposium by bringing together 14 chapters by internationally respected speakers and contributors. Religious, scientific, evolutionary and ethical controversies are presented in an extrordinarily lucid fashion.

Table of contents:
  1. Scientific and religious controversies about the beginning of human life: the relevance of the ethical concept of the fetus as a patient
  2. The choice explosion: human lives, human genes, human numbers
  3. When does human life begin? An evolutionary perspective
  4. When does human life begin? A biologist's perspective
  5. Human embryo: a critical approach to bioethical reason - a Catholic perspective
  6. Human life cycle and the beginning of life: an Islamic perspective
  7. Embryo and fetus as seen by the Orthodox Church
  8. Old and new Buddhist beliefs on the beginning of human life
  9. Beginning of human life: Jewish perspective
  10. Early human development: an overview
  11. Limits of viability - neonatologist's point of view
  12. Scientific visualization of the beginning of human life
  13. The unborn human, ethico-legal significance and protection
  14. Conception without developing human being

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