New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Octavo, blue cloth. pp (xiv), 540. Index, notes. Fine in fine jacket. "This groundbreaking book is a comprehensive study of the ethics of killing in cases in which the metaphysical or moral status of the individual killed is uncertain or controversial. Among the beings whose status is questionable or marginal in this way are human embryos and fetuses, neonates, animals, anencephalic infants, human bengs with severe, congenital, cognitive impairments, and human beings who have become severely demented or irreversibly comatose." - jacket. In print at USD 185.00. 0195079981