Moral Status

`Warren's book is thoroughly researched and well written ... Warren's argument is one of sophistication, clarity, and substance.' Ethics, April 2000 `admirably accessible ... bound to be met with gratitude on the part of an interested general audience, undergraduates, and anyone attempting to put together a course on the subject ... Warren's critical discussions are well informed and sensible. Her survey of the literature is fairly broad and brings to bear a variety of outlooks on the main views under discussion.' Amy Kind, Social Theory and Practice `well written book ... an interesting and insightful development, with many illuminating and well researched side discussions. She gives us much food for thought in pondering how we are to try to accommodate, as much as possible, diverse moral demands in a very complex world. I enjoyed and profited from reading it.' Lawrence Johnson, Environmental Values 8/4 (99) `the logic of the application of the priciples she sets forth is clear. Her theory should prompt discussion and help clarify the concept of moral status. Her multicriterial approach for determining moral status has the potential to assist in the struggle to handle the complex moral issues prevalent today.' N. I. Whitman, Choice `Mary Anne Warren's enterprise, to delineate "obligations to persons and other living things" is potentially fruitful, and of considerable importance.' Mary Warnock, Times Higher Education Supplement `this is a thought-provoking book with much to recommend it.' Liam Clarke, Nursing Ethics `This book is ambitious in the ground it covers, attempting to discuss a number of theories of "moral status", and offer one of its own. It has much in it to interest people concerned about health care (particularly the discussions of euthanasia and abortion), as well as those interested in animal rights and environmental issues.' Journal of Medical Ethics