A defense of dignity
Subtitle: creating life, destroying life, and protecting the rights of conscience
By: Christopher Kaczor
Series: Notre Dame studies in medical ethics; Notre Dame studies in medical ethics
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Indiana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780268033262
Subjects: Human rights; Dignity; Personhood; Bioethics; Right to Die; Pregnancy; Medical Ethics; Ethics; Catholic Church
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-216) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Are all species equal in dignity?; title: Equal dignity and equal access to fertility treatments; title: Procreative beneficence; title: Embryo adoption and artificial wombs; title: The ethics of ectopic pregnancy; title: The ethics of fetal surgery; title: The violinist argument revisited; title: Faith, reason, and physician-assisted suicide; title: PVS patients and Pope John Paul II; title: Organ donation after cardiac death; title: Conscience protection and the incompatibility thesis; title: Conscientious objection and health care.