A defense of dignity : creating life, destroying life, and protecting the rights of conscience /
Questions about the dignity of the human person give rise to many of the most central and hotly disputed topics in bioethics. In this book, the author investigates whether each human being has intrinsic dignity and whether the very concept of "dignity" has a useful place in contemporary et...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Notre Dame, Indiana :
Univ Of Notre Dame Press,
[2013]
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Colección: | Notre Dame studies in medical ethics.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.