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| Foreword | |
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| List of abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| How are we to do Bioethics? | |
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| Context: challenges and resources of a new millennium | |
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| Sex and life in post-modernity | |
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| Catholic engagement with the culture of modernity | |
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| Promising developments | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conscience: the crisis of authority | |
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| The voice of conscience | |
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| The voice of the magisterium | |
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| Conscience in post-modernity | |
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| Where to from here? | |
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| Cooperation: should we ever collaborate with wrongdoing? | |
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| Traditional examples | |
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| Five modern examples | |
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| Some fundamental issues raised by these examples | |
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| Why it matters so much | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Beginning of Life | |
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| Beginnings: when do people begin? | |
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| Method, thesis and implications | |
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| A closer look at the science | |
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| A closer look at the philosophy | |
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| Individuality criteria | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Stem cells: what's all the fuss about? | |
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| Scientific potential and concerns about stem cells | |
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| Ethical concerns about embryonic stem cells | |
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| Social concerns about embryonic stem cells | |
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| Abortion: the new eugenics? | |
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| The perennial debate about abortion | |
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| Pre-naral testing: a search-and-destroy mission? | |
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| The new abortion debate | |
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| Later Life | |
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| Transplants: bodies, relationships and ethics | |
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| Love beyond death | |
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| Conceptions of the body and relationships in tissue transplantation | |
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| Fashionable bioethical approaches to tissue procurement | |
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| Better bioethical approaches to tissue procurement | |
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| Ethical issues in tissue reception | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Artificial nutrition: why do unresponsive patients matter? | |
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| Civilization after Schiavo | |
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| Why the unresponsive still matter: a philosophical account | |
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| Why the unresponsive still matter: a theological account | |
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| Some final questions | |
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| Endings: suicide and euthanasia in the Bible | |
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| The problem of suicide and euthanasia in the Bible | |
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| Suicides and euthanasia in the Bible | |
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| The scriptural basis of Judeo-Christian opposition to suicide and euthanasia | |
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| Protecting Life | |
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| Identity: what role for a Catholic hospital? | |
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| A taie of two hospitals | |
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| Current challenges for Catholic hospitals | |
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| Catholic hospitals as diakonia | |
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| Catholic hospitals as martyria | |
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| Catholic hospitals as leitourgia | |
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| Conclusion: six tasks for a new century | |
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| Regulation: what kinds of laws and social policies? | |
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| A tale of three politicians | |
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| Catholic principles for politicians | |
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| Reasonable stances for a pro-life politician | |
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| Some virtues of a pro-life politician | |
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| Index | |