Contemporary Debates in Bioethics

... case of Baby Theresa , after anencephaly was diagnosed prenatally , Baby Theresa's parents decided to bring the pregnancy to term and petitioned the court to declare the infant to be brain dead immediately after birth to permit donation ...

... case of anencephalic Baby Theresa, whose parents wanted her to be an organ donor after she was born anencephalic (Koenig 1992-3).” Baby Theresa was able to breathe on her own, and with a small woollen cap that concealed the fact that ...

... shs/en/ev.php-URL_ID=9084&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (accessed 22 June 2007). UNESCO (10 April 2007a) 'Ethics Education Programme: Ethics Teacher Training Course' [online]. Available from: http://portal.unesco.org/shs/en/ev ...

... power of attorney , a common legal tool enabling an agent to handle property matters for a principal . ..3 State ... form . Yet by January 1989 , only 12 states had such statutes . Since then , the number has grown rapidly , so that as of ...

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... Casti Connubii a Gaudium et Spes ( Paris : Editions J. Duculot , Gembloux , 1967 ) , especially 13-61 . 50. Both Pius XI in his encyclical Casti Connubii ( 1930 ) and Paul VI in his encyclical Humanae Vitae ( 1968 ) accepted Thomas's ...

This eighth edition has been thoroughly updated to include the most important recent contributions to contemporary debates, and all selections have been subjected to the editors’ exacting standards for both scholarly quality and ...

This seventh edition updates and expands parts throughout the text, including the discussions of conflicting roles and responsibilities for medical professionals and justice in health care.

This eighth edition has been thoroughly updated to include the most important recent contributions to contemporary debates, and all selections have been subjected to the editors’ exacting standards for both scholarly quality and ...

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN BIOETHICS, 8E, International Edition provides balanced coverage and detailed analysis of key topics in bioethics, including human reproduction; euthanasia and assisted suicide; genetics and genetic testing; the right ...

Now in its third edition, this extensive anthology continues to feature a wide range of contemporary ethical and social issues in the biomedical field.

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN BIOETHICS provides balanced coverage and detailed analysis of key topics in bioethics, including human reproduction; euthanasia and assisted suicide; genetics and genetic testing; the right to health care; organ ...

... principles of biomedical ethics are (in theory) meant to have equal weight, the principle of autonomy is commonly understood to be 'first amongst equals'." As such, in developing a theory of autonomy, we are walking a tightrope between ...

... Constitution rightly regards as preëxisting rights ; and as to which all the ... guard and guid- ance , like the cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night ... against the people of the North ? Will they deliberately sanction such an ...

This book does not treat the basic principles of morality but rather many of their applications and suppositions. (For an account of contemporary debates within the Catholic tradition on these matters, see Kaczor 2002).

... morality as either a " doctrine or system concerned with conduct and duty ; moral science " or " moral conduct ; usually , good moral conduct ; behaviour conformed to the moral law ; moral virtue " 128 with ( 2 ) the notion of an open - ...

... and Childress believe that most of us (at least, most of us in the United States) currently accept these principles as part of our common morality. Whereas the principles of beneficence and nonmaleficence hark back to the ancient ...

... beneficence and nonmaleficence toward other individuals. Although literal meanings of beneficence and nonmaleficence are clear and distinctive, the relationship between the two is subject to different interpretations. Most people are ...

... ( principle of benefi- cence ) , and feel completely helpless in doing so because of the need to respect Anna's right to self - determination ( principle of autonomy ) . They have a very real fear that one of these fetuses is likely to ...

... ProCon.org, “Michael White, JD,” last modified June 1, 2009, accessed March 3, 2019. http://euthanasia.procon.org/view.source.php?sourceID=1067. ProCon.org, “Barbara Coombs Lee, JD,” last modified February 4, 2009, accessed March 3 ...

... fever dream, The Singularity Is Near (2005), lent the institution both a name and a doctrine. By page twenty-one ... tab for a midweek conference in Europe's adult Disneyland. The summit's opening video had all the technomystical bombast ...

... stigma is Erving Goffman's sociological study, Stigma: Notes on the Management of a Spoiled Identity (1963). According to Snyder and Mitchell, Goffman's “theory of stigma . . . has been influential to cultural model discourses because ...

... case. Baby Theresa: Laura Campo and Justin Pearson, an unmarried Fort Lauderdale couple, conceived a child in 1991. Because she had no health insurance, Laura did not seek prenatal care until she was eight months pregnant. That's when ...

... case of Theresa Ann Campo Pearson, an anencephalic infant known as “Baby Theresa,” who was born in Florida in 1992. There are about 1,000 such infants — babies without brains — born each year in the United States, so Baby Theresa's ...