Procreative ethics
Subtitle: philosophical and Christian approaches to questions at the beginning of life
By: Fritz Oehlschlaeger.
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9781606082300
Subjects: Bioethics; Bioethics -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Medical ethics; Medical ethics -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Human reproduction -- Moral and ethical aspects; Human reproduction -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects; Abortion -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects; Genetic engineering -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Christian ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-364) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Can the use of artificial contraception within marriage be consistent with the natural law?; title: Abortion, the sacred, and sacrifice: or, what's at stake when life has dominion; title: In defense of the "conception criterion"; title: Abortion as letting die, bad Samaritanism, or just war: why we should reject the analogies; title: Why David Boonin's defense of Thomson fails to persuade the abortion critic; title: The ethics of genetic enhancement: a test of pragmatism as democratic tradition; title: Why designing the subjects of justice is likely to be unjust; title: Giving our children bread: why the harm conundrum is not such a conundrum; title: Why genetic therapy may need something "very much like the church"; title: On Peter Singer's silencing in Germany: or, what's wrong with asking "What's wrong with killing?"; title: Repugnance, Frankenstein, and generational injustice: a consideration of reproductive cloning.