'aLa' #628
SALESIAN APPLAUDED FOR BOOK ON PRENATAL
PERSON
The Prenatal Person. Ethics from Conception
to Birth. Dr. N. Ford SDB
MELBOURNE: 3rd October -- Gynaecologist and
Director of Obstetric adn Gynaecological Services at Melbourne's Mercy Hospital,
Dr. David Allen had words of high praise for Norman Ford's most recent foray
into bioethical issues the 'Prenatal Person...' launched in Melbourne on 18th
September. 'Norman Ford's persistent logic and attention to detail' is pitched
at a wide readership. Its comprehensiveness both in coverage of the
subject and the appeal of the argument and style 'is a credit to the author',
Dr. Allen commented. Fr. Cormac Nagle OFM, hospital ethicist and lecturer
in bioethics at Yarra Theological Union (Melbourne) considers the work to be a
'dialogue with thinking people' and particularly attractive for the balance of
views and respect for opinions of other ethicists along with its 'careful
reasoning and solid philosophy'. These characteristics have always
attended Fr. Norman Ford's public contribution to bioethics in an era when, as
David Allen puts it, 'new advances have thrust us into a world that only
yesterday was science fiction'. The Prenatal Person is Fr. Ford's second
major work in this area, the first being When Did I begin? published by
Cambridge University Press,1988.
The Prenatal Person. Ethics from Conception to Birth, Oxford: Blackwell
Publishing, 2002
