Bioethics matters : a guide for concerned Catholics

Bioethics matters : a guide for concerned Catholics / Moira McQueen.

A practical guide for Catholics through the controversial field of bioethics. Lay people today need to be as educated as possible in catholic teaching in bioethics due to their huge civic responsibilities related to the burning issues of our time such as euthanasia, prenatal genetic diagnosis, and s...

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Main Author: McQueen, Moira, 1946-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Burns & Oates, 2009.
Subjects:
Medical ethics > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Bioethics > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Ethics.
Bioethics > Religious aspects > Catholic Church
Medical ethics > Religious aspects > Catholic Church
Bioethik
Katholizismus
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Bioethics from a Catholic perspective
  • What is ethics?
  • Some key terms
  • The human person
  • Sources of Roman Catholic ethics : revelation and natural law
  • Traditional moral theology : objective dimensions
  • Traditional moral theology : subjective dimensions
  • Conscience
  • Conversion
  • Part 2. Reproductive technologies
  • The human person : church teaching
  • Personhood : theological and legal dimensions
  • The morality of in vitro fertilization
  • Ethical concerns arising from in vitro fertilization
  • Stem cells : embryonic and adult
  • Stem cell experimentation and morality
  • The principle of double effect
  • Co-operation in evil
  • Part 3. End-of-life issues
  • The dignity of the dying
  • Patients' rights
  • Withdrawal of treatment
  • Part 4. Catholic teaching on living life until the end
  • Definitions
  • The Dutch experience
  • Suffering and palliative care
  • The Christian approach to death
  • Appendix. Advance directives for health care.

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