Bioethics with Liberty and Justice
Themes in the Work of Joseph M. Boyle
Editors: Tollefsen, Christopher (Ed.)
Free Preview- A collection of essays that engage with the work of Joseph M. Boyle, one of the most important Catholic bioethicists of recent years
- Explores the most controversial topics of the day: abortion, stem cell research, euthanasia, the right to health care
- Expresses the current state of philosophical bioethics in the Catholic intellectual tradition
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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.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Why Abortion is Seriously Wrong: Two Views
Pages 3-22
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Substantial Identity, Rational Nature, and the Right to Life
Pages 23-40
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Embryo Ethics: Justice and Nascent Human Life
Pages 43-58
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Compassion and the Personalism of American Jurisprudence: Bioethical Entailments
Pages 59-74
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The Significance of the Ultimate End for the Feeding of PVS Patients: A Reply to Kevin O’Rourke
Pages 75-93
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Bioethics with Liberty and Justice
- Book Subtitle
- Themes in the Work of Joseph M. Boyle
- Editors
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- Christopher Tollefsen
- Series Title
- Philosophy and Medicine
- Series Volume
- 110
- Copyright
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-90-481-9791-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-90-481-9791-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-90-481-9790-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-3411-1
- Series ISSN
- 0376-7418
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 261
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