The Zygote: To be or not be a person

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (United Kingdom)

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1989, Pages 641-645

  Bedate, Carlos A ^a   Cefalo, Robert C ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Information capacity; Molecular biology; Personhood; Zygote

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEGINNING OF LIFE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ETHICS; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; LIFE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PERSONHOOD; THERAPEUTIC ABORTION; TWIN PREGNANCY; ZYGOTE;

BEGINNING OF LIFE; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; TWINNING;

ABORTION, LEGAL; BIOETHICS; CHILD; CHILD ADVOCACY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; LIFE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PERSONHOOD; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0024780579     PISSN: 03605310     EISSN: 17445019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmp/14.6.641     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: 1983, Declaration on Procured Abortion (1974), paragraphs 12-13, in A. Fianney (ed.), Vatican Council II: More Postconciliar Documents, Dublin Dominican Publications, Dublin, at pp. 445-446.
2. Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: 1987, Instruction on Respect for Human Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation, Vatican City, Vatican Polyglot Press, at pp. 3-13.
3. Daly, T. V.: 1985, ‘The status of embryonic human life a crucial issue in genetic counseling in health care priorities in Australia’, N. Tonti-Filippini (ed.), Proceedings of the 1985 Annual Conference on Bioethics, St. Vincents Bioethics Centre, Melbourne, at pp. 52-53,189.
4. Ford, N. M.: 1988, ‘When did I begin? Conception of the human individual in history’, Philosophy and Science, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, at pp. 57-64.
5. Hamilton, W. J. and Mossman, H. W.: 1972, Human Embryology, 4th ed., Heffer, Cambridge, England, at p. 14.
6. Hilgers, T. W.: 1980, The New Technologies of Birth and Death: Medical Legal and Moral Dimensions, Pope John XXIII Medical-Moral Research and Education Center, St. Louis, at pp. 34-55, 191.
7. Mahoney, J.: 1984, Bioethics and Belief: Religion and Medicine in Dialogue, Sheed and Ward, London, at pp. 52-86.
8. Patten, B. M.: 1968, Human Embryology, 3rd ed., McGraw Hill, New York.
9. Serra, A.: 1988, ‘The human embryo: science and medicine in human life its beginnings and developments’, Bioethical Reflections of Catholic Scholars, in J.F. Malherbe (ed.), CIACO.s.c., Louvain, pp. 47-67.
10. Simpson, G. and Beck, W.: 1985, Life: An Introduction to Biology, 2nd ed., Harcourt Brace, London, at p. 139.