Bioethics Matters: A Guide for Concerned Catholics, Revised Edition - Softcover

Moira McQueen

9782896463930: Bioethics Matters: A Guide for Concerned Catholics, Revised Edition

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2896463933 ISBN 13: 9782896463930

Publisher: Novalis, 2011

A practical, must-read book for Catholics who want to know how Church teaching can help them work their way through tough decisions and choices. This succinct yet comprehensive guide clearly sets out Catholic teaching on today s hot-button issues such as stem-cell research, reproductive technologies, euthanasia, and more. By presenting real-life situations, this guide provides the reader with Catholic ethical decision-making in action.

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About the Author:

Dr. Moira McQueen is the Director of the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute and a professor of moral theology at the Toronto School of Theology. She is interested in the interdisciplinary aspects of theology, law and medicine as they apply in daily life.

Review:

"An important and timely book aimed specifically at Catholics, this succint guide clearly sets out the Church's teachings on some of today's most contentious and troubling issues ... this is an invaluable guide."

Catholic Herald, April 2009
"Bioethics Matters is...a useful introduction and may encourage some people to dig a little deeper."The Irish Catholic, June 2009

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Church Times, March 2010
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Church Times, March 2010

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