Part I: Moral Statud of Human Embryos and Fetuses Introduction / Jason T. Eberl
The Ontological Status of Pre-implantation Embryos / John R. Meyer
The Potential of Potentiality Arguments / David Hershenov (et al.)
The Moral Status of Anencephalic Homo sapiens / Charles C. Camosy
Anencephaly and Human Dignity in the Clinical Context: Re-conceptualizing Viability and Proportionate Reasoning / John Paul Slosar (et al.)
Part II: Issues with Certain Lifesaving Interventions Introduction / Jason T. Eberl
Saving the Savable Mother: Why the Physician Is Not Culpable of (Morally) Directly Killing / William F. Murphy (et al.)
Moral Methodology in Maternal-Fetal Conflicts / Benedict M. Guevin
Is It Ethically Permissible to Separate Conjoined Twins? Murder, Mutilation, and Consent / Christopher Kaczor
Vital Conflicts, Bodily Respect, and Conjoined Twins: Are We Asking the Right Questions? / Helen Watt
Embryo Adoption Before and After Dignitas personae: Defending an Argument of Limited Permissibility / Sarah-Vaughan Brakman (et al.)
Establishing the Moral Object of Heterologous and Homologous Embryo Transfer / Catherine Althaus
Part III: Contraception Introduction / Jason T. Eberl
Moral Certitude in the Use of Levonorgestrel for the Treatment of Sexual Assault Survivors / Peter J. Cataldo
Evaluation of the Mechanism of Action of Anti-fertility Treatment in Cases of Sexual Assault: Moral Certitude and Human Acts / Thomas J. Davis
Use of a Condom to Prevent HIV among Married Couples / Christopher Tollefsen
The Disease-Preventative Use of Condoms: Why It Is Not Forbidden According to Catholic Doctrine / William F. Murphy
Part IV: Genetics Introduction / Jason T. Eberl
Openness, with Caution and Suspicion, About Human Enhancement / James F. Keenan
Philosophical Anthropology, Ethics, and Human Enhancement / Jason T. Eberl
The Moral Status of Human Embryos and Other Possible Sources of Stem Cells / Lawrence Masek
The Ethical Problems of Altered Nuclear Transfer and Human-Animal Chimeras: We Can Find a Better Way / John F. Morris
Part V: Issues at the End of Human Life Introduction / Jason T. Eberl
Catholic Controversy Over the Rationale for the Determination of Death by Neurological Criteria / David Albert Jones
Defining Death with Aristotle and Aquinas / Kevin L. Flannery
On the Provision of Medical Nutrition and Hydration / Jānis (John) T. Ozoliņš
A Catholic Approach to Withholding Medically Provided Food and Water / Joseph Boyle
Part VI: Organ Donation Introduction / Jason T. Eberl
Is Presumed Consent a Morally Permissible Policy for Organ Donation? / James J. Delaney
A Catholic Moral Analysis of Legislative Defaults in Organ Donation / Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco
Cardiac Death, Reversibility, and Evidence for Death / Stephen Napier
A Catholic Perspective on Organ Donation After Cardiac Death / Peter A. Clark
Part VII: Healthcare Law and Policy Introduction / Jason T. Eberl
Complicity of Catholic Healthcare Institutions with Immoral Laws / Gerard Magill
Catholic Institutions within a Democratic Polity: A Potential Procrustean Bed / Margaret Monahan Hogan
Bioethics and Catholic Politicians: Who Is a Person? / Michael A. Fragoso (et al.)
Addressing Unjust Laws Without Complicity: Selective Bans Versus Regulation / Helen Watt
Conflicts of Conscience for Catholic Healthcare Professionals / Mark S. Latkovic
Conscientious Objection for Catholic Healthcare Professionals / Thomas A. Cavanaugh.