Contemporary Controversies in Catholic Bioethics

Contributors.- Introduction, Jason T. Eberl.- Part I Moral Status of Human Embryos and Fetuses.- Introduction.- The Ontological Status of Pre-implantation Embryos, John R. Meyer.- The Potential of Potentiality Arguments, David Hershenov and Rose Hershenov.- The Moral Status of Anencephalic Homo sapiens, Charles C. Camosy.- Anencephaly and Human Dignity in the Clinical Context: Re-Conceptualizing Viability and Proportionate Reasoning, John Paul Slosar, Mark Repenshek, Elliott Louis Bedford and Emily Trancik.- Part II Issues with Certain Lifesaving Interventions.- Introduction.- Saving the Savable Mother: Why the Physician is Not Culpable of (Morally) Directly Killing, William F. Murphy, Jr. and Martin Rhonheimer.- Moral Methodology in Maternal-Fetal Conflicts, Benedict M. Guevin, O.S.B.- Is It Ethically Permissible to Separate Conjoined Twins? Murder, Mutilation, and Consent, Christopher Kaczor.- Vital Conflicts, Bodily Respect, and Conjoined Twins: Are We Asking the Right Questions?, Helen Watt.- Embryo Adoption Before and After Dignitas personae: Defending an Argument of Limited Permissibility, Sarah-Vaughan Brakman and Darlene Fozard Weaver.- Establishing the Moral Object of Heterologous and Homologous Embryo Transfe, Catherine Althaus.- Part III Contraception.- Introduction.- Moral Certitude in the Use of Levonorgestrel for the Treatment of Sexual Assault Survivors, Peter J. Cataldo.- Evaluation of the Mechanism of Action of Anti-Fertility Treatment in Cases of Sexual Assault: Moral Certitude and Human Acts, Thomas J. Davis, Jr.- Use of a Condom to Prevent HIV among Married Couples, Christopher Tollefsen.- The Disease-Preventative Use of Condoms:Why it is not Forbidden According to Catholic Doctrine, William F. Murphy, Jr.- Part IV Genethics.- Introduction.- Openness, with Caution and Suspicion, about Human Enhancement, James F. Keenan, S.J.- Philosophical Anthropology, Ethics, and Human Enhancement, Jason T. Eberl.- The Moral Status of Human Embryos and Other Possible Sources of Stem Cells, Lawrence Masek.- The Ethical Problems of Altered Nuclear Transfer and Human-Animal Chimeras: We Can Find a Better Way, John F. Morris.- Part V Issues at the End of Human Life.- Introduction.- Catholic Controversy over the Rationale for the Determination of Death by Neurological Criteria, David Albert Jones.- Defining Death with Aristotle and Aquinas, Kevin L. Flannery, S.J.- On the Provision of Medical Nutrition and Hydration, Janis (John) T. Ozoli s.- A Catholic Approach to Withholding Medically Provided Food and Water, Joseph Boyle .- Part VI Organ Donation.- Introduction.- Is Presumed Consent a Morally Permissible Policy for Organ Donation?, James Delaney.- A Catholic Moral Analysis of Legislative Defaults in Organ Donation, Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, O.P.- Cardiac Death, Reversibility, and Evidence for Death, Stephen Napier.- A Catholic Perspective on Organ Donation after Cardiac Death, Peter A. Clark, S.J.- Part VII Healthcare Law and Policy.- Introduction.- Complicity of Catholic Healthcare Institutions with Immoral Laws, Gerard Magill.- Catholic Institutions within a Democratic Polity: A Potential Procrustean Bed, Margaret Monahan Hogan.- Bioethics and Catholic Politicians: Who Is a Person?, Michael A. Fragoso and O. Carter Snead.- Addressing Unjust Laws without Complicity: Selective Bans versus Regulation, Helen Watt.- Conflicts of Conscience for Catholic Healthcare Professionals, Mark S. Latkovic.- Conscientious Objection for Catholic Healthcare Professionals, Thomas A. Cavanaugh.- Index.... Mehr