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This book presents essays that discuss, criticize, and in many cases extend the work of the Catholic bioethicist Joseph M. Boyle, covering some of today´s most controversial topics: abortion, euthanasia, stem cell research and the right to health care.

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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 philosophical bioethics done in the Catholic intellectual tradition.

Four main themes stand out as central to Boyle´s contribution: the sanctity of life and bioethics: Boyle has elaborated a view of the ethics of killing at odds with central tenets of the euthanasia mentality, double effect and bioethics: Boyle is among the pre-eminent defenders of a role for double effect in medical decision making and morality, the right to health care: Boyle has moved beyond the rhetoric of social justice to provide a natural law grounding for a political right to health care; and the role of natural law and the natural law tradition in bioethics: Boyle´s arguments have been grounded in a particularly fruitful approach to natural law ethics, the so-called New Natural Law theory.

The contributors to BIOETHICS WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE: THEMES IN THE WORK OF JOSEPH M. BOYLE discuss, criticize, and in many cases extend the Boyle´s advances in these areas with rigor and sophistication. It will be of interest to Catholic and philosophical bioethicists alike.

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Editor´s Preface:
Christopher Tollefsen

PART ONE: THE SUBSTANTIAL IDENTITY THESIS

Chapter One: Why Abortion is Seriously Wrong: Two Views
Donald Marquis

Chapter Two: Substantial Identity, Rational Nature, and the Right to Life
Patrick Lee

PART TWO: MORAL AND LEGAL ISSUES AT THE BEGINNING AND ENDING OF LIFE

Chapter Three: Embryo Ethics: Justice and Nascent Human Life
Robert P. George

Chapter Four: Compassion and the Personalism of American Jurisprudence: Bioethical Entailments
R. Mary Hayden Lemmons

Chapter Five: The Significance of the Ultimate End for the Feeding of PVS Patients: A Reply to Kevin O´Rourke
Peter F. Ryan, S.J.

PART THREE: DOUBLE EFFECT AND BIOETHICS

Chapter Six: Praeter Intentionem and Bioethics
E. Christian Brugger

Chapter Seven: The Action-Omission and Double-Effect Distinctions
Timothy Chappell

PART FOUR: BIOETHICS AND THE NATURAL LAW: CHALLENGES

Chapter Eight: Global Bioethics and the Natural Law
Ana S. Iltis

Chapter Nine: Guided Autonomy and Good Friend Physicians
Janet E. Smith

PART FIVE: THE RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE

Chapter Ten: Social Justice, Charity and Tax Evasion: A Critical Inquiry
Mark J. Cherry

Chapter Eleven: Natural Law, Property, and Welfare Rights
Andrew Lustig

Chapter Twelve: Health Care Technology and Justice
Germain Grisez

PART SIX: BOYLE RESPONDS

Chapter Thirteen: An Appreciative Response
Joseph M. Boyle

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