Bioethics with Liberty and Justice Themes in the Work of Joseph M. Boyle /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Tollefsen, Christopher (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Philosophy and Medicine, 110
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Religion.; Ethics.; Religion > Philosophy.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Medical research.; Medical ethics.; Quality of life.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Quality of Life Research.; Philosophy of Religion.; Religious Studies, general.; Philosophy of Medicine.

Joseph M. Boyle Jr. has been a major contributor to the development of Catholic bioethics over the past thirty five years. Boyle’s contribution has had an impact on philosophers, theologians, and medical practitioners, and his work has in many ways come to be synonymous with analytically rigorous ph...

Table of Contents:

• Editor’s Preface: Christopher Tollefsen
• Part one: The substantial identity thesis. Part two: moral and legal issues at the beginning and ending of life
• Part three: Double effect and bioethics
• Part four: Bioethics and the natural law: challenges
• Part five: The right to health care
• Part six: boyle responds.