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Murray, Thomas Henry was born on July 30, 1946 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Thomas Henry and Colombia Rita (Lucci) Murray.
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The Worth of a Child
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Thomas Murray's graceful and humane book illuminates one of the most morally complex areas of everyday life: the relationship between parents and children. What do children mean to their parents, and how far do parental obligations go? What, from the beginning of life to its end, is the worth of a child? Ethicist Murray leaves the rarefied air of abstract moral philosophy in order to reflect on the moral perplexities of ordinary life and ordinary people. Observing that abstract moral terms such as altruism and selfishness can be buried in the everyday doings of families, he maintains that ethical theory needs a richer description than it now has of the moral life of parents and children. How far should adults go in their quest for children? What options are available to women who do not want to bear a child now? Should couples be allowed to reject a child because of genetic disability or "wrong" gender? How can we weigh the competing claims of the genetic and the rearing parents to a particular child? The Worth of a Child couples impressive learning with a conversational style. Only by getting down to cases, Murray insists, can we reach moral conclusions that are unsentimental, farsighted, and just. In an era of intense public and private acrimony about the place and meaning of "family values," his practical wisdom about extraordinary difficult moral issues offers compelling reading for both experienced and prospective parents, as well as for ethicists, social and behavioral scientists, and legal theorists.
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The Worth of a Child by Thomas H Murray (1996-12-12)
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Thomas Henry Murray
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Bachelor in Psychology, Temple University, 1968; Doctor of Philosophy in Social Psychology, Princeton, 1976.
Career
Instructor, New College, Sarasota, Florida, 1971-1975;
assistant professor Interdisciplinary Studies, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio., 1975-1980;
associate professor, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio., 1980;
associate social behavioral studies, The Hastings Center, Hastings-on Hudson, New York, 1980-1984;
associate professor Institute Medical Humanities, U. Tex Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, 1984-1986;
professor, U. Tex Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, 1986-1987;
professor, director Center biomedical Ethics, Case We. Reserve University, Cleveland, since 1987;
Susan E. Watson profl bioethics, Case We. Reserve University, Cleveland, 1988-1999;
president, The Hastings Center, Garrison, New York, since 1999.
Member National Bioethics Advisory Commission, ethical, legal and social issues working group Human Genome Project Organisation National Institutes of Health/Department Energy, 1989-1995.
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The Worth of a Child
( Thomas Murray's graceful and humane book illuminates on...)
- The Worth of a Child by Thomas H Murray (1996-12-12)
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The Worth of a Child
Membership
Member of the United States Olympic committee, committee sports medicine. Fellow Society Values in Higher Education, Hastings Center, Environmental Health Institute. Member APHA, Association Practical and Professional Ethics (Executive Committee), American Society Law Medicine and Ethics (board directors 1993-1997), Association Integrative Studies (board directors 1980-1987, president 1983), Society Health and Human Values (chair program directors section 1989-1990, faculty association 1989-1990, SHHV programcom.
1990, president-elect 1992-1993, president 1993-1994), American Society Human Genetics (chair social issues committee), American College Ob-Gyn. (commission on ethics), American Society Bioethics and Humanities (president-elect 1998-1999), Human Genome Organisation (ethics committee).
Connections
Married Sharon Marie Engelkraut, January 1968 (divorced September 1975). Children: Kathleen Elizabeth, Dominique Maria, Peter Albert. Married Cynthia Sarah Aberle, April 1, 1978.
1 child, Emily Sarah Aberle.
