The new technologies of birth and death
Subtitle: medical, legal, and moral dimensions : proceedings of the Workshop for Bishops of the United States and Canada
By: sponsored by the Pope John Center through a grant from the Knights of Columbus, Dallas, Texas, January 28-31, 1980.
Contributors: Pope John XXIII Medical-Moral Research and Education Center.
Publisher: The Center
Published: 1980
Place of publication: St. Louis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Medical ethics -- Congresses.; Christian ethics -- Catholic authors -- Congresses.; Life and death, Power over -- Congresses.
Description: This volume contains the insights provided the 122 bishops in attendance at this historic and unprecedented conference by two doctors, two lawyers, and five theologians. It embraces subjects as old as abortion and contraception and as new as in vitro fertilization and the ovulation method of natural family planning. It reviews the new efforts to determine if human death has occurred even though vital signs are artificially maintained. And it explores the human and legal implications of withdrawing life-support technology and permitting death to occur.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.