Creating Life, Destroying Life, and Protecting the Rights of Conscience /
First Statement of Responsibility
Christopher Kaczor.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Notre Dame, Indiana :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Notre Dame Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2013]
Place of Manufacture
(Baltimore, Md. :
Name of Manufacturer
Project MUSE,
Date of Manufacture
2015)
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (x, 220 pages )
SERIES
Series Title
Notre Dame studies in medical ethics
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-216) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction -- Are all species equal in dignity? -- Equal dignity and equal access to fertility treatments -- Procreative beneficence -- Embryo adoption and artificial wombs -- The ethics of ectopic pregnancy -- The ethics of fetal surgery -- The violinist argument revisited -- Faith, reason, and physician-assisted suicide -- PVS patients and Pope John Paul II -- Organ donation after cardiac death -- Conscience protection and the incompatibility thesis -- Conscientious objection and health care.