TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tooley,Michael
TI  - Abortion and infanticide
SN  - 0198246749
AV  - HQ767.3 .T66 1983
U1  - 179/.76 19
PY  - 1983///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
KW  - Abortion
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Infanticide
KW  - Abortion, Induced
KW  - psychology
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Ethical aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 426-433) and index; Part I. Philosophical background -- 1. Ethics, meta-ethics, and philosophical thinking -- Part II. Abortion -- 2. Abortion: introductory remarks -- 3. The relevance of the moral status of the foetus -- 4. Persons and human beings -- 5. The concept of a person -- 6. Potential persons -- 7. Possible persons -- 8. Moderate positions on abortion -- 9. A brief summary -- Part III. Infanticide -- 10. Present-day attitudes, and the historical and anthropological background -- 11. Objections to infanticide -- 12. Summary and conclusions
N2  - The book has two main concerns. The first is to isolate the fundamental issues that must be resolved if one is to be able to formulate a defensible position on the question of the morality of abortion. The second is to determine the most plausible stand on those issues
ER  -