Catholic bioethics for a new millennium
Can the Hippocratic and Judeo-Christian traditions be synthesized with contemporary thought about practical reason, virtue and community to provide real-life answers to the dilemmas of healthcare today? Bishop Anthony Fisher discusses conscience, relationships and law in relation to the modern-day c...
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Cambridge University Press
2012
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Inhaltsangabe:
- How are we to do bioethics? Context: challenges and resources of a new millennium
- Conscience: the crisis of authority
- Cooperation: should we ever collaborate with wrongdoing?
- Beginning of life. Beginnings: when do people begin?
- Stem cells: what's all the fuss about?
- Abortion: the new eugenics?
- Later life. Transplants: bodies, relationships and ethics
- Artificial nutrition: why do unresponsive patients matter?
- Endings: suicide and euthanasia in the Bible
- Protecting life. Identity: what role for a Catholic hospital?
- Regulation: what kinds of laws and social policies?