A Defense of Dignity: Creating Life, Destroying Life, and Protecting the Rights of Conscience

• Autore: Kaczor Christopher <1969->
• Pubblicazione: [Place of publication not identified], : University of Notre Dame Press, 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 pages)
• Disciplina: 174.2
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: A Defense of Dignity: Creating Life, Destroying Life, and Protecting the Rights of Conscience
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826554403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II