Catholic Bioethics For A New Millennium
by Anthony Fisher /
2012 / English / PDF
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Can the Hippocratic and Judeo-Christian traditions be synthesized
with contemporary thought about practical reason, virtue and
community to provide real-life answers to the dilemmas of
healthcare today? Bishop Anthony Fisher discusses conscience,
relationships and law in relation to the modern-day controversies
surrounding stem cell research, abortion, transplants, artificial
feeding and euthanasia, using case studies to offer insight and
illumination. What emerges is a reason-based bioethics for the
twenty-first century; a bioethics that treats faith and reason with
equal seriousness, that shows the relevance of ancient wisdom to
the complexities of modern healthcare scenarios and that offers new
suggestions for social policy and regulation. Philosophical
argument is complemented by Catholic theology and analysis of
social and biomedical trends, to make this an auspicious example of
a new generation of Catholic bioethical writing which has relevance
for people of all faiths and none.
Can the Hippocratic and Judeo-Christian traditions be synthesized
with contemporary thought about practical reason, virtue and
community to provide real-life answers to the dilemmas of
healthcare today? Bishop Anthony Fisher discusses conscience,
relationships and law in relation to the modern-day controversies
surrounding stem cell research, abortion, transplants, artificial
feeding and euthanasia, using case studies to offer insight and
illumination. What emerges is a reason-based bioethics for the
twenty-first century; a bioethics that treats faith and reason with
equal seriousness, that shows the relevance of ancient wisdom to
the complexities of modern healthcare scenarios and that offers new
suggestions for social policy and regulation. Philosophical
argument is complemented by Catholic theology and analysis of
social and biomedical trends, to make this an auspicious example of
a new generation of Catholic bioethical writing which has relevance
for people of all faiths and none.
