"With so much bioethical thinking supporting the 'culture of death.' I can think of no better champion of a 'culture of life' than Professor William E. May. Professor May has given us a book which is useful not only for its masterful summary of the moral magisterium on bioethics, but also for its treatment of such issues as contraception, artificial reproduction, the care of the dying, human experimentation, and the definition of death and organ transplants."
-- Dr. Mark S. Latkovic, Associate Professor of Moral Theology, Sacred Heart Major Seminary
"This book is a blessing for those who are faced -- as all of us are at times -- with the profound and deeply human questions medical ethics must ask. May presents fairly and intelligently the arguments used on all sides of every critical question. His presentation is up to date and wonderfuly clear. He is also gracious and persuasive: he helps us see why certain answers to important questions are right and good, and guard wisely the values that are most dear to our lives."
-- Ronald Lawler, O.F.M.Cap.
CONTENTS INCLUDE:
- CHURCH TEACHING AND MAJOR ISSUES IN BIOETHICS
- John Paul II's Encyclical "Evangelium Vitae"
- The Vatican Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation (Donum Vitae)
- Declaration on Procured Abortion
- The Declaration on Euthanasia
- MAKING TRUE MORAL JUDGMENTS AND GOOD MORAL CHOICES
- The Meaning of a "Human Act"
- Kinds of Human Dignity; Human Freedom and God's Wise and Loving Plan for Human Existence
- The Relationship Between the "Good" and the Human Choices and Action; The First Principles of Natural Law
- Normative Truths of Natural Law
- Steps in Making True Moral Judgments
- The "Fulfillment" or "Perfection" of Natural Law Through the Redemptive Work of Christ
- GENERATING HUMAN LIFE: MARRIAGE AND THE NEW REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
- Fornication, Adultery, and the Generation of Human Life
- Marriage and the Generation of Human Life
- Generating Human Life Through New Reproductive Technologies
- "Assisted" Insemination/Fertilization
- "Rescuing" Frozen Embryos
- CONTRACEPTION AND THE RESPECT FOR HUMAN LIFE
- Pope John Paul II on the Roots of the Culture of Death and Contraception's Relationship to It
- Contraception vs. "Recourse to the Rhythm of the Cycle"
- An Anti-Life Act
- Both Anti-Love and Anti-Life
- ABORTION AND HUMAN LIFE
- Clarification of Church Teaching
- It is Reasonable to Believe that Most People Begin at Fertilization and Unreasonable to Deny This
- The Special Moral Gravity of Abortion, a Woman's "Right" to Abortion, the Difference Between a "Right" and a "Liberty"
- Abortion as "Removal" vs. Abortion as "Killing"
- The Management of Ectopic Pregnancies
- EXPERIMENTATION ON HUMAN SUBJECTS
- The Cardinal Principle of Free and Informed Consent
- Proxy Consent
- Research on the Unborn, in Particular Embryonic Stem-Cell Research
- Genetic Therapy
- Prenatal and Pre-Implantation Screening
- Genetic Counseling
- The Human Genome Project
- EUTHANASIA, ASSISTED SUICIDE, AND CARE OF THE DYING
- The "Ethics of Euthanasia"
- Critique of the "Ethics of Euthanasia"
- The "Ethics of Benemortasia"
- Caring for the Permanently Unconscious and Persons in the "Persistent Vegetative State"
- Advance Directives
- DEFINING DEATH AND ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION
- Pope John Paul II on Death
- The conclusions of the "Working Group" of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
- The Rationale for Identifying "Brain Death" with Human Death
- Dr. Alan Shewmon's Challenge to "Brain Death"
- Organ Donation from the Living (Inter Vivos)
William E. May is the Michael J. McGivney Professor of Moral Theology at the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family. He is an internationally known theologian and coauthor of Catholic Sexual Ethics, Second Edition and author of An Introduction to Moral Theology. |
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