Symptoms, Illness Behavior, and Help-Seeking

by David Mechanic

Presenting a new argument, this book attacks the view that if a fetus has the moral standing of a person it has a right to life and abortion is impermissable. Most discussion of abortion has assumed that this premise is correct, and so has focused on the question of the personhood of the fetus. Kamm, however, argues that abortion can be moral even if the fetus is indeed a person. Kamm begins by examining the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882021346
• ISBN13: 9780882021348
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Prodist
• Length: 157 Pages