The Edge of Life Human Dignity and Contemporary Bioethics
The Edge of Life: Human Dignity and Contemporary Bioethics resituates bioethics in fundamental outlook by challenging both the dominant Kantian and utilitarian approaches to evaluating how new technologies apply to human life. Drawing on an analysis of th
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The Edge of Life Human Dignity and Contemporary Bioethics
by Christopher Kaczor
THE EDGE OF LIFE
Philosophy and Medicine VOLUME 85 Founding Co-Editor Stuart F. Spicker
Editor H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Department of Philosophy, Rice University, and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Associate Editor Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Loyola University, New Orleans, U.S.A.
CATHOLIC STUDIES IN BIOETHICS 4 Series Founding Co-Editors John Collins Harvey, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Francesc Abel, Institut Borja de Bioetica, Centre Borja, Barcelona, Spain
Series Editor Christopher Tollefsen, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
Editorial Advisory Board Joseph Boyle, St. Michael’s College, Toronto, Canada Thomas Cavanaugh, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A. Mark Cherry, St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX, U.S.A. Ana Smith Iltis, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
THE EDGE OF LIFE HUMAN DIGNITY AND CONTEMPORARY BIOETHICS
by
CHRISTOPHER KACZOR Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
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CHAPTER 2 WHEN DOES A HUMAN BEING BECOME A PERSON?
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CHAPTER 3 ALL HUMAN BEINGS ARE PERSONS CHAPTER 4 HOW IS THE DIGNITY OF THE PERSON INTENTION FROM FORESIGHT
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AGENT RECOGNIZED? DISTINGUISHING 67
CHAPTER 5 AN ETHICAL ASSESSMENT OF BUSH’S GUIDELINES FOR STEM CELL RESEARCH
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CHAPTER 6 MORAL ABSOLUTISM AND ECTOPIC PREGNANCY
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CHAPTER 7 COULD ARTIFICIAL WOMBS END THE ABORTION DEBATE?
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CHAPTER 8 SOLOMON’S DILEMMA: SHOULD CONJOINED TWINS JODIE AND MARY HAVE BEEN SEPARATED?
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CHAPTER 9 CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND THE CATHOLIC TRADITION: CONTRADICTION, CIRCUMSTANTIAL APPLICATION, OR DEVELOPMENT OF DOCTRINE?
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My thanks to the Alexander von Humbolt Foundation for supporting research on certain sections of this book with a Bundeskanzler Fellowship at the University of Cologne in 1996. I would also like to thank Paul Weithman, David Solomon, Thomas Cavanaugh, Ron Tacelli, Michael Sherwin, Ralph McInerny, Miles Kessler, J. Budziszewski, and others for their helpful comments on various chapters. Much work was also done on this work during a year as a Fulbright scholar in Germany during 2002–2003. Portions of this book have appear
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