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Contemporary Issues in Bioethics: A Catholic Perspective
Author(s): James J. Walter (Author), Thomas A. Shannon Attorney-at-Law and executive director emeritus of the National School Boar (Author)
- Publisher: Sheed & Ward,U.S.
- Publication Date: 22 Nov. 2005
- Language: English
- Print length: 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 0742550605
- ISBN-13: 9780742550605
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Review
Two giants in contemporary bioethics provide a lucid and breathtaking analysis of how the Catholic moral tradition can shape and inform the most neuralgic issues in health care. This work offers a very practical and user-friendly study for students and scholars in the academy, for clinicians and other professionals in health care, as well as for patients and families struggling with Catholic teaching about controversies in bioethics. The authors display a profound respect for the Catholic moral tradition to enhance its influence in the high-tech culture of health care today. — Gerard Magill, Executive Director & Department Chair, Center for Health Care Ethics, Saint Louis University
Thorough, nuanced and challenging, this new work by Walter and Shannon is a welcome addition to the resources for the teaching and practice of Catholic bioethics. Nicely balanced between theoretical and “practical” considerations, Contemporary Issues in Bioethics captures the diversity of Catholic perspectives on life and death issues while showing us exactly what is lost when religious voices are missing or distorted in our public debates. — Maura A. Ryan, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, University of Notre Dame
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