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Title The ethics of embryo adoption and the Catholic tradition : moral arguments, economic reality and social analysis / edited by Sarah-Vaughan Brakman, Darlene Fozard Weaver
Published Dordrecht : Springer Science + Business Media B.V, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Series Philosophy and Medicine ; 95
Philosophy and medicine ; 95.
Contents Morality of embryo adoption -- Introduction: the ethics of embryo adoption and the Catholic tradition -- Arguments agains -- Heterologous embryo transfer: metaphor and morality -- Human embryo transfer and the theology of the body -- On the moral objectionability of human embryo adoption -- Arguments for -- Could human embryo transfer be intrinsically immoral? -- Ethical considerations in defense of embryo adoption -- Real mothers and good stewards: the ethics of embryo adoption -- Debate engaged -- Embryo adoption theologically considered: bodies, adoption, and the common good -- From rescuing frozen embryos to respecting the limits of nature: reframing the embryo adoption debate -- Embryo adoption? An egalitarian perspective -- A Protestant view: the ethics of embryo adoption and the Catholic tradition -- Morality in practice -- Development of the National Embryo Donation Center -- An embryo adoptive father's perspective -- An embryo adoptive mother's perspective -- Ethical and religious directives for a Catholic embryo adoption agency: a thought experiment -- Embryo adoption and the law -- Artificial wombs and embryo adoption
Summary At last, a comprehensive collection of essays that examines and advances ethical evaluations of the controversial and increasingly popular practice of embryo adoption. In the United States alone, 400,000 frozen embryos created for in vitro fertilization exist but are no longer desired for that purpose. What are we morally obliged or permitted to do about these "spare" embryos? More of their genetic parents are considering donating these embryos to others to gestate and raise. This practice is politically volatile (figuring in debates about embryonic stem cells) and medically and morally complex. At the present time within the Roman Catholic Church there is no official teaching on embryo adoption. Catholic ethical analyses grapple with the way embryo adoption comports with respect for embryonic human life yet challenges Catholic moral critiques of assisted reproductive technologies. This volume brings together leading philosophers and theologians to engage Catholic debates about embryo adoption in an interactive format. The editors, a philosopher bioethicist and a moral theologian, provide a helpful overview of the practice and the arguments surrounding embryo adoption. They engage neglected Catholic ethical resources and issues to advance the current debate and chart new directions in Catholic moral thinking about this intriguing practice. The volume also includes a description of embryo adoption from a physician practitioner along with reflections from a couple who successfully adopted an embryo
Analysis filosofie
philosophy
ethiek
ethics
geneeskunde
medicine
religie
religion
voortplantingsorganen
reproductive organs
bioethics
Philosophy (General)
Filosofie (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
In Springer eBooks
Subject Human embryo -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Reproductive health -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Medical ethics.
Adoption.
Human embryo -- Religious aspects.
Reproductive health.
Ethics.
Philosophy.
Religion.
Embryo Transfer -- ethics
Ethics, Medical
Reproductive Medicine
Adoption
Catholicism
Embryo Disposition -- ethics
Ethics
Philosophy
Religion
ethics (philosophy)
philosophy.
religion (discipline)
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Reproductive health
Human embryo -- Religious aspects
Adoption
Human embryo -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Medical ethics
Form Electronic book
Author Brakman, Sarah-Vaughan.
Weaver, Darlene Fozard.
LC no. 2007943466
ISBN 9781402062117
1402062117
9781402062100
1402062109