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• Addresses the ethical questions which have arisen in response to new reproductive technologies.
  
• Helps students of theology, philosophy and health studies, as well as lay readers tackle these issues.
  
• Provides readers with relevant medical and scientific facts.
  
• Explains how different metaphysical frameworks affect the ways in which people solve these ethical problems.
  
• Topics...

• Addresses the ethical questions which have arisen in response to new reproductive technologies.
  
• Helps students of theology, philosophy and health studies, as well as lay readers tackle these issues.
  
• Provides readers with relevant medical and scientific facts.
  
• Explains how different metaphysical frameworks affect the ways in which people solve these ethical problems.
  
• Topics...

Saving lives versus taking lives: These are the stark terms in which the public regards human embryo research--a battleground of extremes, a war between science and ethics. Such a simplistic dichotomy, encouraged by vociferous opponents of abortion and proponents of medical research, is precisely what Jane Maienschein seeks to counter with this book. Whose View of Life? brings the current debates into sharper focus by examining developments in stem cell research, cloning, and embryology in historical and philosophical context and by exploring legal, social, and ethical issues at the...

John Riddle uncovers the obscure history of contraception and abortifacients from ancient Egypt to the seventeenth century with forays into Victorian England--a topic that until now has evaded the pens of able historians.

Riddle's thesis is, quite simply, that the ancient world did indeed possess effective (and safe) contraceptives and abortifacients. The author maintains that this rich body of knowledge about fertility control--widely held in the ancient world--was gradually lost over the course of the Middle Ages, becoming nearly extinct by the early modern period. The reasons for...

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"Who or what the other is, I never know. But the other who is forever unknowable is the one who differs from me sexually. This feeling of surprise, astonishment, and wonder in the face of the unknowable ought to be returned to its locus: that of sexual difference."Thus Luce Irigaray undertakes a searching inquiry into what may be the philosophical problem of our age.

Irigaray approaches the question of sexual difference by looking at the ways in which thought and language whether in philosophy, science, or psychoanalysis are gendered. She juxtaposes evocative readings of classic...

-A courageous analysis of Arab writers, addressing the connections between masculinity, violence, and nationalism.-
--Robin Morgan, Ms..

-Rarely have sexuality and war been treated with such poignancy and historical concreteness .... The force of these often intertwined phenomena endemic to the human condition are considered with incisive and wrenching specificity from within one of the most baneful convergences of sexuality and war in recent history.-
--Djelal Kadir, editor, World Literature Today.

-Personal, powerful, passionate, uncensored.-
--Fedwa...

"A pleasure...a really sensitive, lucid account of his personal liberation...a penetrating analysis of the political premises and goals and philosophical background of the movement."
The New York Times

"The one to read...may very well be the most intelligible and best written books on the subject."
The Minneapolis Tribune

When Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation was first published in 1971, The New York Review of Books, hailed it as the only work that bears comparison...with the best to appear from Women's Liberation. Time wrote that, among the...