Research Catalog

Title

The ethics of embryo adoption and the Catholic tradition : moral arguments, economic reality, and social analysis / Sarah-Vaughan Brakman, Darlene Fozar Weaver, editors.

Publication

[New York?] : Springer, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

• Brakman, Sarah-Vaughan.
• Weaver, Darlene Fozard.

Description

x, 326 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Philosophy and medicine ; 95. Catholic studies in bioethics ; v. 6

Uniform Title

• Philosophy and medicine ; v. 95.
• Philosophy and medicine. Catholic studies in bioethics ; v. 6.

Subject

• Human embryo > Transplantation
• Human reproductive technology > Ethics
• Adoption > Religious aspects
• Embryo Transfer > ethics
• Adoption
• Catholicism
• Embryo Disposition > ethics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. I. The Morality of Embryo Adoption -- Introduction. The Ethics of Embryo Adoption and the Catholic Tradition / Sarah-Vaughan Brakman and Darlene Fozard Weaver -- Arguments against -- Heterologous Embryo Transfer: Metaphor and Morality / William E. Stempsey -- Human Embryo Transfer and the Theology of the Body / Catherine Althaus -- On the Moral Objectionability of Human Embryo Adoption / Tadeusz Pacholczyk -- Arguments for -- Could Human Embryo Transfer Be Intrinsically Immoral? / Christopher O. Tollefsen -- Ethical Considerations in Defense of Embryo Adoption / Brandon P. Brown and Jason T. Eberl -- Real Mothers and Good Stewards: The Ethics of Embryo Adoption / Sarah-Vaughan Brakman -- Pt. II. The Debate Engaged -- Embryo Adoption Theologically Considered: Bodies, Adoption, and the Common Good / Darlene Fozard Weaver -- From Rescuing Frozen Embryos to Respecting the Limits of Nature: Reframing the Embryo Adoption Debate / Paul Lauritzen -- Embryo Adoption? An Egalitarian Perspective / Mary B. Mahowald -- A Protestant View: The Ethics of Embryo Adoption and the Catholic Tradition / Eric Gregory -- Pt. III. Morality in the Practice -- Development of the National Embryo Donation Center / Jeffrey Keenan -- An Embryo Adoptive Father's Perspective / John Stanmeyer -- An Embryo Adoptive Mother's Perspective / Suzanne Stanmeyer -- Ethical and Religious Directives for a Catholic Embryo Adoption Agency: A Thought Experiment / John Berkman and Kristen N. Carey -- Embryo Adoption and the Law / Elizabeth Cason Crosby Cheely -- Artificial Wombs and Embryo Adoption / Christopher Kaczor.

ISBN

• 9781402062100 (alk. paper)
• 1402062109 (alk. paper)
• 9781402062117 (electronic bk.)
• 1402062117 (electronic bk.)

LCCN

2007943466

OCLC

• ocn154712068
• 154712068
• SCSB-5414042

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries