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The Ethics of Embryo Adoption and the Catholic Tradition

Moral Arguments, Economic Reality and Social Analysis

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Editors:
  1. Sarah-Vaughan Brakman

    1. Villanova University, Villanova, USA

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  2. Darlene Fozard Weaver

    1. Villanova University, Villanova, USA

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  • One of the first two collections on the Catholic Tradition and Embryo Adoption
  • The first Interdisciplinary contribution to Catholic scholarship on Embryo Adoption, with contributions from a medical practitioner and a couple who have embryo adopted, in addition to those from philosophers and theologians
  • Argues for new approaches to moral analysis of embryo adoption, while working within the Catholic Tradition
  • Goes beyond the moral permissibility of embryo adoption to investigate moral issues in the practice of embryo adoption
  • Includes a Protestant perspective on Catholic debates about the practice

Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 95)

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

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. The Morality of Embryo Adoption

    1. Introduction: The Ethics of Embryo Adoption and the Catholic Tradition

      • Sarah-Vaughan Brakman, Darlene Fozard Weaver
      Pages 3-23

    2. Heterologous Embryo Transfer: Metaphor and Morality

      • Reverend William E. Stempsey
      Pages 25-41

    3. Human Embryo Transfer and the Theology of the Body

      • Catherine Althaus
      Pages 43-67

    4. On the Moral Objectionability of Human Embryo Adoption

      • Reverend Tadeusz Pacholczyk
      Pages 69-83

    5. Could Human Embryo Transfer Be Intrinsically Immoral?

      • Christopher O. Tollefsen
      Pages 85-101

    6. Ethical Considerations in Defense of Embryo Adoption

      • Brandon P. Brown, Jason T. Eberl
      Pages 103-118

    7. RealMothers and Good Stewards: The Ethics of Embryo Adoption

      • Sarah-Vaughan Brakman
      Pages 119-138

  4. Morality in the Practice

    1. Development of the National Embryo Donation Center

      • Jeffrey Keenan
      Pages 221-230

    2. An Embryo Adoptive Father's Perspective

      • John Stanmeyer
      Pages 231-236

    3. An Embryo Adoptive Mother's Perspective

      • Suzanne Stanmeyer
      Pages 237-249

    4. Ethical and Religious Directives for a Catholic Embryo Adoption Agency: A Thought Experiment

      • John Berkman, Kristen N. Carey
      Pages 251-273

    5. Embryo Adoption and the Law

      • Elizabeth Cason Crosby Cheely
      Pages 275-306

    6. Artificial Wombs and Embryo Adoption

      • Christopher Kaczor
      Pages 307-322

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 323-326
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About this book

The book’s strength is its careful consideration, from a variety of perspectives within the Catholic tradition, of the practice of embryo adoption. It approaches the question in an open and reasonable way by allowing proponents of diverse positions within the tradition. This method both sheds a great deal of light on the particular question and at the same time introduces the reader to the relevant general principles that guide Catholic moral thought.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Villanova University, Villanova, USA

    Sarah-Vaughan Brakman, Darlene Fozard Weaver

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Ethics of Embryo Adoption and the Catholic Tradition

  • Book Subtitle: Moral Arguments, Economic Reality and Social Analysis

  • Editors: Sarah-Vaughan Brakman, Darlene Fozard Weaver

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6211-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6210-0Published: 27 May 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7568-0Published: 28 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6211-7Published: 08 April 2008

  • Series ISSN: 0376-7418

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 326

  • Topics: Gynecology, Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Reproductive Medicine, Religious Studies, general

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