ISBN:
0199267952
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (259 p)
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Fragmenting Family
DDC:
306.85
Keywords:
Reproductive technology Moral and ethical aspects
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Families
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Family policy
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Families
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Family policy
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Reproductive technology ; Moral and ethical aspects
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Brenda Almond throws down a timely challenge to liberal consensus about personal relationships. She maintains that the traditional family is fragmenting in Western societies, and that this fragmentation is a cause of serious social problems. She urges that we reconsider our attitudes to sex and reproduction in order to strengthen our most important social institution, the family. - ;Brenda Almond throws down a timely challenge to the liberal consensus about personal relationships. She maintains that the traditional family is fragmenting in Western societies, and that this fragmentation is a ca
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Introduction; Part I. Understanding family: Philosophy's contribution; 1. Family; 2. Permanent relations? Love, marriage, and philosophical lives; 3. From philosophy to law; 4. Feminist aims, family consequences; Part II. Shaping families: Science's contribution; 5. Having and not having children; 6. New reproductive technologies: Whose human rights?; Part III. New frontiers: Family, law, and politics; 7. Family choices: What do children really want?; 8. Law, policy-making, and the contemporary family; Part IV. Preserving identities: A future for the family?
Description / Table of Contents:
9. Family, identity, and community10. Finding a way through the wood; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [238]-253) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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