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Autore |
Kaczor Christopher <1969-> |
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Titolo |
A Defense of Dignity: Creating Life, Destroying Life, and Protecting the Rights of Conscience |
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[Place of publication not identified], : University of Notre Dame Press, 2013 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (232 pages) |
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Collana |
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Notre Dame studies in medical ethics A defense of dignity |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Bioethics - Catholic Church - Religious aspects |
Human rights |
Dignity |
Ethics, Clinical |
Patient Rights |
Reproduction |
Morals |
Social Control, Formal |
Ethics, Professional |
Reproductive Physiological Processes |
Sociology |
Psychology, Social |
Humanities |
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms |
Reproductive Physiological Phenomena |
Social Sciences |
Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena |
Health Care Economics and Organizations |
Health Care |
Ethics, Medical |
Ethics |
Human Rights |
Personhood |
Bioethics |
Right to Die |
Pregnancy |
Medicine |
Health & Biological Sciences |
Medical Ethics & Philosophy |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Are all species equal in dignity? -- Equal dignity and equal access to fertility treatments -- Procreative beneficence -- Embryo adoption and artificial wombs -- The ethics of ectopic pregnancy -- The ethics of fetal surgery -- The violinist argument revisited -- Faith, reason, and physician-assisted suicide -- PVS patients and Pope John Paul II -- Organ donation after cardiac death -- Conscience protection and the incompatibility thesis -- Conscientious objection and health care. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A Defense of Dignity argues that all human beings should be treated with respect and considers how this belief should be applied in controversial cases. |
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