Contemporary Controversies in Catholic Bioethics
This volume comprises various viewpoints representing a Catholic perspective on contemporary practices in medicine and biomedical research. The Roman Catholic Church has had a significant impact upon the formulation and application of moral values and principles to a wide range of controversial issu...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017. |
| Series: | Catholic Studies in Bioethics,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55766-3 |
Table of Contents:
- Contributors
- Introduction; Jason T. Eberl
- Part I Moral Status of Human Embryos and Fetuses
- Introduction
- The Ontological Status of Pre-implantation Embryos; John R. Meyer
- The Potential of Potentiality Arguments; David Hershenov and Rose Hershenov
- The Moral Status of Anencephalic Homo sapiens; Charles C. Camosy
- Anencephaly and Human Dignity in the Clinical Context: Re-Conceptualizing Viability and Proportionate Reasoning; John Paul Slosar, Mark Repenshek, Elliott Louis Bedford and Emily Trancik
- Part II Issues with Certain Lifesaving Interventions
- Introduction
- Saving the Savable Mother: Why the Physician is Not Culpable of (Morally) Directly Killing; William F. Murphy, Jr. and Martin Rhonheimer
- Moral Methodology in Maternal-Fetal Conflicts; Benedict M. Guevin, O.S.B
- Is It Ethically Permissible to Separate Conjoined Twins? Murder, Mutilation, and Consent; Christopher Kaczor
- Vital Conflicts, Bodily Respect, and Conjoined Twins: Are We Asking the Right Questions?; Helen Watt
- Embryo Adoption Before and After Dignitas personae: Defending an Argument of Limited Permissibility; Sarah-Vaughan Brakman and Darlene Fozard Weaver
- Establishing the Moral Object of Heterologous and Homologous Embryo Transfe; Catherine Althaus
- Part III Contraception
- Introduction
- Moral Certitude in the Use of Levonorgestrel for the Treatment of Sexual Assault Survivors; Peter J. Cataldo
- Evaluation of the Mechanism of Action of Anti-Fertility Treatment in Cases of Sexual Assault: Moral Certitude and Human Acts; Thomas J. Davis, Jr
- Use of a Condom to Prevent HIV among Married Couples; Christopher Tollefsen
- The Disease-Preventative Use of Condoms:Why it is not Forbidden According to Catholic Doctrine; William F. Murphy, Jr
- Part IV Genethics
- Introduction
- Openness, with Caution and Suspicion, about Human Enhancement; James F. Keenan, S.J
- Philosophical Anthropology, Ethics, and Human Enhancement; Jason T. Eberl
- The Moral Status of Human Embryos and Other Possible Sources of Stem Cells; Lawrence Masek
- The Ethical Problems of Altered Nuclear Transfer and Human-Animal Chimeras: We Can Find a Better Way; John F. Morris
- Part V Issues at the End of Human Life
- Introduction
- Catholic Controversy over the Rationale for the Determination of Death by Neurological Criteria; David Albert Jones
- Defining Death with Aristotle and Aquinas; Kevin L. Flannery, S.J
- On the Provision of Medical Nutrition and Hydration; Jānis (John) T. Ozoliņš
- A Catholic Approach to Withholding Medically Provided Food and Water; Joseph Boyle†
- Part VI Organ Donation
- Introduction
- Is Presumed Consent a Morally Permissible Policy for Organ Donation?; James Delaney
- A Catholic Moral Analysis of Legislative Defaults in Organ Donation; Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, O.P
- Cardiac Death, Reversibility, and Evidence for Death; Stephen Napier
- A Catholic Perspective on Organ Donation after Cardiac Death; Peter A. Clark, S.J
- Part VII Healthcare Law and Policy
- Introduction
- Complicity of Catholic Healthcare Institutions with Immoral Laws; Gerard Magill
- Catholic Institutions within a Democratic Polity: A Potential Procrustean Bed; Margaret Monahan Hogan
- Bioethics and Catholic Politicians: Who Is a Person?; Michael A. Fragoso and O. Carter Snead
- Addressing Unjust Laws without Complicity: Selective Bans versus Regulation; Helen Watt
- Conflicts of Conscience for Catholic Healthcare Professionals; Mark S. Latkovic
- Conscientious Objection for Catholic Healthcare Professionals; Thomas A. Cavanaugh
- Index.