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Book SynopsisIn Morals and Medicine a leading Protestant theologian comes to grips with the problems of conscience raised by new advances in medical science and technology. They arise as issues at the start or making of a life, in preserving its health, and in facing its death. They are the problems of Everyman: some are new problems of conscience, such as arti
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Foreword, pg. ix*Preface to the Princeton Paperback Edition, pg. xiii*Preface (1954), pg. xvii*Acknowledgments, pg. xxiii*Chapter 1. Human Rights in Life, Health, and Death, pg. 1*Chapter 2. Medical Diagnosis: Our Right to Know the Truth, pg. 34*Chapter 3. Contraception: Our Right to Control Parenthood, pg. 65*Chapter 4. Artificial Insemination: Our Right to Overcome Childlessness, pg. 100*Chapter 5. Sterilization: Our Right to Foreclose Parenthood, pg. 141*Chapter 6. Euthanasia: Our Right to Die, pg. 172*Chapter 7. The Ethics of Personality: Morality, Nature, and Human Nature, pg. 211*Selected Bibliography, pg. 229*Index, pg. 233
