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Catholic bioethics for a new millennium /

0511841868 (electronic bk.)

113919092X (electronic bk.)

9780511841866 (electronic bk.)

9781139190923 (electronic bk.)

0521253241

1107009588

9780521253246

9781107009585

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Catholic bioethics for a new millennium /

[Book]

Anthony Fisher.

1 online resource (xii, 333 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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?

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"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 controversies surrounding stem cell research, abortion, transplants, artificial feeding and euthanasia, using case studies to offer insight and illumination. What emerges is a reason-based bioethics for the twenty-first century; a bioethics that treats faith and reason with equal seriousness, that shows the relevance of ancient wisdom to the complexities of modern healthcare scenarios and that offers new suggestions for social policy and regulation. Philosophical argument is complemented by Catholic theology and analysis of social and biomedical trends, to make this an auspicious example of a new generation of Catholic bioethical writing which has relevance for people of all faiths and none"--

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Catholic bioethics for a new millennium.

9781107009585

Catholic Church-- Doctrines.

Bioethics-- Religious aspects-- Catholic Church.

Medical ethics-- Religious aspects-- Catholic Church.

Bioethical Issues.

Catholicism.

MED-- 050000

Fisher, Anthony,1960-

20130809052637.0

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