Bioethics with Liberty and Justice

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. The Substantial Identity Thesis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Why Abortion is Seriously Wrong: Two Views

      • Donald Marquis

      Pages 3-22

   3. Substantial Identity, Rational Nature, and the Right to Life

      • Patrick Lee

      Pages 23-40

3. Moral and Legal Issues at the Beginning and Ending of Life

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41

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4. Moral And Legal Issues At The Beginning And Ending Of Life

   1. Embryo Ethics: Justice and Nascent Human Life

      • Robert P. George

      Pages 43-58

   2. Compassion and the Personalism of American Jurisprudence: Bioethical Entailments

      • R. Mary Hayden Lemmons

      Pages 59-74

   3. The Significance of the Ultimate End for the Feeding of PVS Patients: A Reply to Kevin O’Rourke

      • Peter F. Ryan S.J

      Pages 75-93

5. Double Effect and Bioethics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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6. Double Effect And Bioethics

   1. Praeter Intentionem in Aquinas and Issues in Bioethics

      • E. Christian Brugger

      Pages 97-111

   2. The Action-Omission and Double Effect Distinctions

      • Timothy Chappell

      Pages 113-141

7. Bioethics and the Natural Law: Challenges

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143

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8. Bioethics And The Natural Law: Challenges

   1. Global Bioethics and Natural Law

      • Ana S. Iltis

      Pages 145-162

   2. Guided Autonomy and Good Friend Physicians

      • Janet Smith

      Pages 163-181

9. The Right to Health Care

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183

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10. The Right To Health Care

    1. Social Justice, Charity and Tax Evasion: A Critical Inquiry

       • Mark J. Cherry

       Pages 185-204

    2. Natural Law, Property, and Welfare Rights

       • Andrew Lustig

       Pages 205-219

    3. Health Care Technology and Justice

       • Germain Grisez

       Pages 221-239

11. Boyle Responds

    1. Front Matter

       Pages 241-241

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    2. An Appreciative Response

       • Joseph M. Boyle

       Pages 243-258

Joseph M. Boyle Jr. has been a major contributor to the development of Catholic bioethics over the past thirty five years. Boyle’s contribution has had an impact on philosophers, theologians, and medical practitioners, and his work has in many ways come to be synonymous with analytically rigorous philosophical bioethics done in the Catholic intellectual tradition. Four main themes stand out as central to Boyle’s contribution: the sanctity of life and bioethics: Boyle has elaborated a view of the ethics of killing at odds with central tenets of the euthanasia mentality, double effect and bioethics: Boyle is among the pre-eminent defenders of a role for double effect in medical decision making and morality, the right to health care: Boyle has moved beyond the rhetoric of social justice to provide a natural law grounding for a political right to health care; and the role of natural law and the natural law tradition in bioethics: Boyle’s arguments have been grounded in a particularly fruitful approach to natural law ethics, the so-called New Natural Law theory. The contributors to BIOETHICS WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE: THEMES IN THE WORK OF JOSEPH M. BOYLE discuss, criticize, and in many cases extend the Boyle’s advances in these areas with rigor and sophistication. It will be of interest to Catholic and philosophical bioethicists alike.

• Joseph M. Boyle
• abortion
• bioethics
• catholic bioethics
• euthanasia
• new natural law theory
• right to health care
• stem cell research

• , Dept of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

  Christopher Tollefsen

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