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Bioethics - A Culture War (Paperback, New)
Nicholas C Lund-Molfese, Michael L. Kelly; Contributions by Nicholas C Lund-Molfese, Michael Kelly, Francis Cardinal George, OMI, …
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The purpose of this valuable book is to consider recent cultural
trends in bioethics from a Catholic perspective. The first section
describes modern cultural notions of health and human suffering. It
examines the meaning of suffering in the contemporary world and
relates this discussion to the ethical issues surrounding abortion,
euthanasia, and the competing conceptions of health. The second
section discusses the philosophical origins of the culture war
through an examination of the problematic bases of various forms of
moral relativism and its inability to guide moral action. The third
section contextualizes this abstract discussion in the current
political and legal debate on biotechnology, marriage, and the
family. Bioethics is intended for a lay audience interested in
understanding bioethical issues from a Catholic perspective.
What is it that worries us about cloning? Why do technologies such
as in vitro fertilization threaten the family? How does modern
biological science threaten the very life it studies? These are
important questions that demand a careful examination of science,
technology, and the dignity of the human person. The March 2002
symposium Human Dignity and Reproductive Technology brought
together philosophers, theologians, scientists, lawyers, and
scholars from across the United States to discuss these questions.
The essays of this book are the contributions of the symposium's
participants. These essays do not simply catalogue recent ethical
debates concerning reproduction technologies. Rather, they examine
how these technologies impact human life and its innate, undeniable
dignity. In accordance with the tradition of the Catholic Church,
human dignity is examined from the perspectives of both faith and
reason so that the good of technology may promote the dignity of
the human person.
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