Bioethics, Law, and Human Life Issues

D. Brian Scarnecchia

doi:10.5771/9780810874237

Summary

Bioethics, Law, and Human Life Issues: A Catholic Perspective on Marriage, Family, Contraception, Abortion, Reproductive Technology, and Death and Dying draws on the Magisterial teaching of the Catholic Church to outline a Catholic response to a host of controversial issues related to human life. Scarnecchia lays out a Catholic moral theology based on the writings of Pope John Paul II and Thomas Aquinas, and he then applies those Christian moral principles to today's most contentious ethical issues, including reproductive technology, embryo adoption, contraception, abortion, family and same-sex marriage, and euthanasia and assisted suicide. This review of Catholic moral principles brings together an in-depth consideration of the central human life issues of our day with abundant reference to the Church's social teaching and to contrasting positions of today's leading ethicists.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8108-7422-0
ISBN-Online: 978-0-8108-7423-7
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 471
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Abbreviations No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
1. Chapter 1: Rational Anthropology and the Difference between Persons and Animals No access
2. Chapter 2: Human Freedom and Conscience No access
3. Chapter 3: The Three Moral Determinants and Doubts of Conscience No access
4. Chapter 4: The Principle of Double Effect and Consequentialism No access
5. Chapter 5: Cooperation and Scandal No access
6. Chapter 6: Virtues—Natural and Supernatural No access
7. Chapter 7: Sin and Grace No access
8. Chapter 8: Revelation No access
1. Chapter 9: Reproductive Technologies No access
2. Chapter 10: Homosexuality and Same-Sex Marriage No access
3. Chapter 11: Contraception No access
4. Chapter 12: Abortion No access
5. Chapter 13: Marriage and Family No access
6. Chapter 14: End of Life Issues No access
Appendix A Summary of Evangelium Vitae No access Pages 399 - 432
Appendix B Summary of Savifici Doloris No access Pages 433 - 446
Bibliography No access Pages 447 - 462
Index No access Pages 463 - 470
About the Author No access Pages 471 - 471