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Issues for a Catholic Bioethic
Edited by Prof. Luke Gormally
This volume contains all the invited papers delivered at the 1997 International Bioethics Conference hosted by the Linacre Centre. There is also a small selection of supplementary contributions.
*First published 1999
*Binding: paperback
*381 pages
Contents
Introduction - Luke Gormally
Opening Address - Cardinal Thomas J Winning
The ecclesial context of Catholic bioethics
The Church's Magisterium in face of the moral crisis of our time
- Cardinal Cahal B Daly
Catholics and Anglicans and contemporary bioethics: divided or united?
- Michael Banner
Medicine, moral crisis and the need for evangelization: the challenge to Christians in Western liberal societies - Michael Waldstein
Anthropology
Bioethics and the philosophy of the human body - John Haldane
Biblical anthropology and medical ethics - Gregory Glazov
Sexual ethics
The nuptial meaning of the body and sexual ethics
- Jorge Vincente Arregui
Formation in chastity: the need and the requirements
- Bartholomew Kiely SJ
Situating health care
Healthcare as part of a Christian's vocation - Germain Grisez
The encounter with suffering in the practice of medicine in the light of Christian revelation - David Albert Jones OP
Medicine as a profession and the meaning of health as its goal
- Luke Gormally
Integrity in health care
Collaboration and integrity: how to think clearly about moral problems of co-operation - Joseph Boyle
Is there a distinctive role for the Catholic hospital in a pluralist society? - Anthony Fisher OP
Law, public policy, and the pro-life cause
The legal revolution: from 'sanctity of life' to 'quality of life' and `autonomy'- John Keown
The Catholic Church and public policy debates in Western liberal societies: the basis and limits of intellectual engagement - John Finnis
Bioethics and public policy: Catholic participation in the American debate
- Robert P George with William L Saunders
The pro-life cause in Great Britain: reflections on success and failure, and on the Church's record and the present challenge - Jack Scarisbrick
Disputed questions
Is it reasonable to use the UK protocol for the clinical diagnosis of 'brain stem death' as a basis for diagnosing death? - Alan Shewmon
Can a patient's refusal of life-prolonging treatment be morally upright when it is motivated neither by the belief that the treatment would be clearly futile nor by the belief that the consequences of treatment would be unduly burdensome? - Bernadette Tobin
Are there any circumstances in which it would be morally admirable for a woman to seek to have an orphan embryo implanted in her womb?
- Mary Geach and Helen Watt
Is the 'medical management' of ectopic pregnancy by the administration of methotrexate morally acceptable?
- Christopher Kaczor and Gerald Gleeson
Contributors
Index of Names