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Contemporary Controversies in Catholic Bioethics

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Editors:
  1. Jason T. Eberl

    1. College of Osteopathic Medicine, Marian University, Indianapolis, USA

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  • Offers a comprehensive and nuanced treatment of a wide range of bioethical issues debated by Catholic scholars
  • Includes contributions by nationally and internationally recognized Catholic scholars
  • Contains commissioned essays providing the most up-to-date arguments supporting the positions argued

Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 127)

Part of the book sub series: Catholic Studies in Bioethics (CSBE)

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Table of contents (40 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Jason T. Eberl
    Pages 1-5

  3. Moral Status of Human Embryos and Fetuses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Introduction

      • Jason T. Eberl
      Pages 9-15

    3. The Ontological Status of Pre-implantation Embryos

      • John R. Meyer
      Pages 17-34

    4. The Potential of Potentiality Arguments

      • David Hershenov, Rose Hershenov
      Pages 35-51

    5. The Moral Status of Anencephalic Homo sapiens

      • Charles C. Camosy
      Pages 53-65

    6. Anencephaly and Human Dignity in the Clinical Context: Re-conceptualizing Viability and Proportionate Reasoning

      • John Paul Slosar, Mark F. Repenshek, Elliott Louis Bedford, Emily Trancik
      Pages 67-82

  4. Issues with Certain Lifesaving Interventions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. Introduction

      • Jason T. Eberl
      Pages 85-89

    3. Saving the Savable Mother: Why the Physician Is Not Culpable of (Morally) Directly Killing

      • William F. Murphy Jr., Martin Rhonheimer
      Pages 91-104

    4. Moral Methodology in Maternal-Fetal Conflicts

      • Benedict M. Guevin
      Pages 105-121

    5. Is It Ethically Permissible to Separate Conjoined Twins? Murder, Mutilation, and Consent

      • Christopher Kaczor
      Pages 123-133

    6. Vital Conflicts, Bodily Respect, and Conjoined Twins: Are We Asking the Right Questions?

      • Helen Watt
      Pages 135-145

    7. Embryo Adoption Before and After Dignitas personae: Defending an Argument of Limited Permissibility

      • Sarah-Vaughan Brakman, Darlene Fozard Weaver
      Pages 147-167

    8. Establishing the Moral Object of Heterologous and Homologous Embryo Transfer

      • Catherine Althaus
      Pages 169-187
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About this book

This volume comprises various viewpoints representing a Catholic perspective on contemporary practices in medicine and biomedical research. The Roman Catholic Church has had a significant impact upon the formulation and application of moral values and principles to a wide range of controversial issues in bioethics. Catholic leaders, theologians, and bioethicists have elucidated and marshaled arguments to support the Church’s definitive positions on several bioethical issues, such as abortion, euthanasia, and reproductive cloning. Not all bioethical issues, however, have been definitively addressed by Catholic authorities, and some Church teachings allow for differing applications in diverse circumstances. Moreover, as new biomedical technologies emerge, Church authorities rely on experts in science, medicine, philosophy, theology, law, and other disciplines to advise them. Such experts continue to debate issues related to reproduction, genetics, end-of-life care, and health care policy. This volume will be a valuable resource for scholars in bioethics or Catholic studies, who will benefit from the nuanced arguments offered based on the latest research. This volume is also instructive for students entering the field to become aware of the founding philosophical and theological principles informing the Catholic bioethical worldview.

Reviews

“The articles in this book make this a valuable resource for scholars in bioethics, theology, and philosophy, as well as for clinical bioethicists working in Catholic healthcare. Furthermore, this book will be helpful to students wishing to explore current Catholic bioethics debates. … This is a much‐needed contribution to Catholic bioethics literature. The expansive exploration of controversial topics in Catholic bioethics by prominent Catholic scholars makes this a book that Catholic bioethicists should have on their shelves.” (Jacob R. Harrison, Doody's Book Reviews, April, 2018)

Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Osteopathic Medicine, Marian University, Indianapolis, USA

    Jason T. Eberl

About the editor

Jason T. Eberl, Ph.D. is the Semler Endowed Chair for Medical Ethics in the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Professor of Philosophy at Marian University in Indianapolis. He is also an affiliate faculty member of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics and the Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics at IU Health. His research interests include the philosophy of human nature and its application to issues at the margins of life; ethical issues related to end-of-life care, genetics, and healthcare allocation; and the philosophical thought of Thomas Aquinas. He is the author of Thomistic Principles and Bioethics (Routledge 2006) and The Routledge Guidebook to Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae (Routledge 2015), and has published articles in The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, The Linacre Quarterly, Review of Metaphysics, International Philosophical Quarterly, The Modern Schoolman, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, American Journal of Bioethics, and Bioethics.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Contemporary Controversies in Catholic Bioethics

  • Editors: Jason T. Eberl

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55766-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55764-9Published: 03 August 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85740-4Published: 12 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55766-3Published: 24 July 2017

  • Series ISSN: 0376-7418

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 622

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Ethics, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Sociology of Culture, Catholicism

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