Tooley, Michael,  1941- <br/><br/>
Abortion and infanticide / 
Michael Tooley. 
 - Oxford :  New York :  Clarendon Press ;  Oxford University Press,  �1983. 
 - ix, 441 pages ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 426-433) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0198246749 9780198246749 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>83006261 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GB8327754  bnb b8327754 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Abortion--Moral and ethical aspects.<br/>Infanticide--Moral and ethical aspects.<br/>Abortion, Induced--psychology.<br/>Infanticide--psychology.<br/>Ethics.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Abortion  Ethical aspects. 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ767.3  / .T66 1983 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>179/.76 363.4/6 
<br/><br/><label>Universal Decimal Class. No.: </label>179.7 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>HQ 767  / T671a 1983