Untangling Twinning: What Science Tells Us about the Nature of Human Embryos (Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics) by Maureen L. Condic
English | February 28th, 2020 | ISBN: 026810705X | 196 pages | EPUB | 0.88 MB
Scientists and philosophers have long struggled to answer the questions of when human life begins and when human life has inherent value. The phenomenon of identical (monozygotic) twinning presents a significant challenge to the view that human life and human personhood begin at conception. The fact that a single embryo can split to generate two (or more) genetically identical embryos seems to defy the notion that prior to splitting an embryo can be a single human individual. In Untangling Twinning, Maureen Condic looks at the questions raised by human twinning based on a unique synthesis of molecular developmental biology and Aristotelian philosophy.