Infertility

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Technology, Reproduction, and Faith

   1. Technology, Reproduction, and Faith

      • Kevin Wm. Wildes

      Pages 1-5

3. Scientific and Psychological Questions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Advances in Assisted Reproductive Technologies

      • James A. Simon

      Pages 9-25

   3. Issues in the Psychological Evaluation and Care of In Vitro Fertilization Couples

      • Yula Ponticas, Peter J. Fagan

      Pages 27-38

   4. Therapy of Working with the Childless Woman: The Pathos of Unrealized Dreams, the Psychology of Female Infertility

      • Mariram B. Rosenthal

      Pages 39-49

4. Theological Reflections

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51

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   2. Moral Horizons in Health Care: Reproductive Technologies and Catholic Identity

      • James F. Keenan

      Pages 53-71

   3. Donum Vitae: Catholic Teaching Concerning Homologous In Vitro Fertilization

      • William E. May

      Pages 73-92

   4. Human Need and Natural Law

      • Jean Porter

      Pages 93-106

   5. Interventions Upon Gametes in Assisting the Conjugal Act Toward Fertilization

      • John W. Carlson

      Pages 107-124

   6. Donum Vitae: Dissenting Opinions on the “Simple Case” of In Vitro Fertilization

      • Carol A. Tauer

      Pages 125-146

5. Moral and Social Reflections

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147

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   2. Infertile Couples: Psychological Needs, Social Responsibilities

      • Deborah D. Blake

      Pages 149-166

   3. What Price Fertility?

      • Patricia Beattie Jung

      Pages 167-180

   4. In Vitro Fertilization: Secular Moral Authority, Biomedicine, and the Role of the State

      • Kevin Wm. Wildes

      Pages 181-194

6. Continuing Conversation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195

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   2. Epilogue

      • Ron Hamel

      Pages 197-208

7. Back Matter

   Pages 209-247

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Infertility: A Crossroad of Faith, Medicine, and Technology brings together a diverse group of clinicians, theologians, and philosophers to examine the use of reproductive technologies in the light of the Roman Catholic moral tradition and recent teaching. The book provides relevant background information (e.g. Donum Vitae from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) as it explores the psychological, social, legal, and moral contexts of reproductive medicine.
This book is Volume 3 of Catholic Studies in Bioethics in the series Philosophy and Medicine.

• Ethics
• bioethics
• health
• infertility
• morality

• Georgetown University, USA

  Kevin Wm. Wildes

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