Contemporary Controversies in Catholic Bioethics

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Introduction
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   Chapter 2 Introduction
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   Chapter 3 The Ontological Status of Pre-implantation Embryos
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   Chapter 4 The Potential of Potentiality Arguments
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   Chapter 5 The Moral Status of Anencephalic Homo sapiens
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   Chapter 6 Anencephaly and Human Dignity in the Clinical Context: Re-conceptualizing Viability and Proportionate Reasoning
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   Chapter 7 Introduction
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   Chapter 8 Saving the Savable Mother: Why the Physician Is Not Culpable of (Morally) Directly Killing
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    Chapter 9 Moral Methodology in Maternal-Fetal Conflicts
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    Chapter 10 Is It Ethically Permissible to Separate Conjoined Twins? Murder, Mutilation, and Consent
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    Chapter 11 Vital Conflicts, Bodily Respect, and Conjoined Twins: Are We Asking the Right Questions?
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    Chapter 12 Embryo Adoption Before and After Dignitas personae: Defending an Argument of Limited Permissibility
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    Chapter 13 Establishing the Moral Object of Heterologous and Homologous Embryo Transfer
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    Chapter 14 Introduction
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    Chapter 15 Moral Certitude in the Use of Levonorgestrel for the Treatment of Sexual Assault Survivors
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    Chapter 16 Evaluation of the Mechanism of Action of Anti-fertility Treatment in Cases of Sexual Assault: Moral Certitude and Human Acts
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    Chapter 17 Use of a Condom to Prevent HIV among Married Couples
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    Chapter 18 The Disease-Preventative Use of Condoms: Why It Is Not Forbidden According to Catholic Doctrine
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    Chapter 19 Introduction
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    Chapter 20 Openness, with Caution and Suspicion, About Human Enhancement
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    Chapter 21 Philosophical Anthropology, Ethics, and Human Enhancement
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    Chapter 22 The Moral Status of Human Embryos and Other Possible Sources of Stem Cells
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    Chapter 23 The Ethical Problems of Altered Nuclear Transfer and Human-Animal Chimeras: We Can Find a Better Way
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    Chapter 24 Introduction
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    Chapter 25 Catholic Controversy Over the Rationale for the Determination of Death by Neurological Criteria
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    Chapter 26 Defining Death with Aristotle and Aquinas
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    Chapter 27 On the Provision of Medical Nutrition and Hydration
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    Chapter 28 A Catholic Approach to Withholding Medically Provided Food and Water
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    Chapter 29 Introduction
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    Chapter 30 Is Presumed Consent a Morally Permissible Policy for Organ Donation?
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    Chapter 31 A Catholic Moral Analysis of Legislative Defaults in Organ Donation
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    Chapter 32 Cardiac Death, Reversibility, and Evidence for Death
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    Chapter 33 A Catholic Perspective on Organ Donation After Cardiac Death
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    Chapter 34 Introduction
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    Chapter 35 Complicity of Catholic Healthcare Institutions with Immoral Laws
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    Chapter 36 Catholic Institutions within a Democratic Polity: A Potential Procrustean Bed
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    Chapter 37 Bioethics and Catholic Politicians: Who Is a Person?
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    Chapter 38 Addressing Unjust Laws Without Complicity: Selective Bans Versus Regulation
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    Chapter 39 Conflicts of Conscience for Catholic Healthcare Professionals
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    Chapter 40 Conscientious Objection for Catholic Healthcare Professionals