The Law and Ethics of Medicine
The Law and Ethics of Medicine

Author: John Keown

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 2012-04-26

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 0199589550

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The principle of the sanctity of life is key to the law governing medical practice and professional medical ethics. It is also widely misunderstood. This book clarifies the principle and considers how it influences the law governing abortion; 'test-tube' babies; euthanasia; feeding patients in persistent vegetative states; and palliative treatment.

Harm, Healing, and Human Dignity
Harm, Healing, and Human Dignity

Author: Caitlin Morneau

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2019-05-10

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 0814664164

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Harm, Healing, and Human Dignity is a faith formation resource to help parishes, small groups, and individual believers reflect on the Catholic call to restorative justice. Through Scripture, Catholic teaching, eye-opening statistics, and personal stories, each chapter prompts prayerful consideration of the place of human dignity and the common good as we respond to harm, violence, and the death penalty in the United States. Prepared in cooperation with the highly regarded Catholic Mobilizing Network for the Abolition of the Death Penalty, Harm, Healing, and Human Dignity will help Catholics consider what it means to choose hope over death and redemption over vengeance. It's a choice that can foster healing, transform relationships, and build the culture of life to which our Catholic faith calls us.

The Beginning of Human Life
The Beginning of Human Life

Author: Frauke Beller

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-09

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 9401582572

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Progress in biomedical science has called for an international discussion of the medical, ethical, and legal problems that confront physicians, medical researchers, infertile couples, pregnant women, and parents of premature or disabled infants. In addition, the unprecedented technological developments in obstetrical, perinatal, and neonatal medicine in recent years have indicated a need for an international forum for interdisciplinary dialogue regarding the definition of early human life, the neurological development of early human life, the value of early human life, the obligations for its protection and prolongation, and the limits to these obligations.

The Sanctity-of-life Doctrine in Medicine
The Sanctity-of-life Doctrine in Medicine

Author: Helga Kuhse

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13:

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Examining and refuting the "sanctity-of-life" view in medical decision making, Kuhse argues for a quality-of-life ethic based on the belief that there is a profound difference between merely being alive and life being in the patient's interest.

Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy
Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy

Author: John Keown

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-04-25

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9780521009331

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Whether the law should permit voluntary euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide is one of the most vital questions facing all modern societies. Internationally, the main obstacle to legalisation has proved to be the objection that, even if they were morally acceptable in certain 'hard cases', voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide could not be effectively controlled; society would slide down a 'slippery slope' to the killing of patients who did not make a free and informed request, or for whom palliative care would have offered an alternative. How cogent is this objection? This book provides the general reader (who need have no expertise in philosophy, law or medicine) with a lucid introduction to this central question in the debate, not least by reviewing the Dutch euthanasia experience. It will interest all in any country whether currently for or against legalisation, who wish to ensure that their opinions are better informed.

Sanctity of Life and Human Dignity
Sanctity of Life and Human Dignity

Author: K. Bayertz

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 940091590X

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`Sanctity of life' and `human dignity' are two bioethical concepts that play an important role in bioethical discussions. Despite their separate history and content, they have similar functions in these discussions. In many cases they are used to bring a difficult or controversial debate to an end. They serve as unquestionable cornerstones of morality, as rocks able to weather the storms of moral pluralism. This book provides the reader with analyses of these two concepts from different philosophical, professional and cultural points of view. Sanctity of Life and Human Dignity presents a comparative analysis of both concepts.