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*Engages contemporary moral questions raised by biology and medicine from a sound Catholic perspective*

How are the patient, the physician, the nurse, and the scientist called to grow in holiness in their particular vocations? This introductory text, written from within the Catholic moral tradition, narrates a bioethics that emphasizes the pursuit of beatitude in the lives of those who are confronted by moral questions raised by biomedicine and the other life sciences.

The Catholic moral vision that informs this volume is rooted in the moral life described by the Lord Jesus Christ in his Sermon on the Mount. As Pope John Paul II taught in his moral encyclical, Veritatis splendor, we imitate Christ by seeking, with God's grace, to perfect ourselves through our actions and the virtues they engender. In this way, Catholic bioethics differs from other contemporary approaches to bioethics that focus on either the outcomes of human acts or the procedures that protect the autonomy of the human agent.

Besides ethical questions raised at the beginning and the end of life, Nicanor Austriaco, O.P., discusses the ethics of the clinical encounter, human procreation, organ donation and transplantation, and biomedical research. Finally, the text discusses the realities faced by citizens of faith living in a free and democratic society that is at the same time postmodern, secular, and liberal.

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• Abbreviations(p. ix)
• Acknowledgments(p. xiii)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• 1 Bioethics and the Pursuit of Beatitude(p. 7)
• 2 Bioethics at the Beginning of Life(p. 43)
• 3 Bioethics and Human Procreation(p. 73)
• 4 Bioethics and the Clinical Encounter(p. 112)
• 5 Bioethics at the End of Life(p. 135)
• 6 Bioethics, Organ Donation, and Transplantation(p. 170)
• 7 Research Bioethics from the Bench to the Bedside(p. 207)
• 8 Catholic Bioethics in a Pluralistic Society(p. 247)
• Appendix: Church Documents on Bioethics(p. 277)
• Selected Bibliography(p. 281)
• Scripture Index(p. 307)
• Subject Index(p. 308)

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Austriaco (Providence College) is a Dominican priest and a biologist with an extensive understanding of the Catholic Church's bioethical doctrine. The text is unique because it is truly interdisciplinary, combining rigorous theological ethics and contemporary biomedicine. The author helpfully organizes the text according to the major issues of the field, such as ethics at the end of life and the ethics of assisted reproduction. Each chapter provides the social, historical, and medical contexts of the issue, and then articulates the church's position and counterpositions on the issue. Chapters conclude with a specific virtue that aids in the moral analysis of the chapter's topic. The reader will come away from the book with a solid understanding of 21st-century biomedicine, Catholic bioethical doctrine, and ongoing national debates in bioethics. While Austriaco consistently defends the Catholic Church's teaching, he critically engages it and places it in dialogue with diverse ethical perspectives. The text is clearly written, well researched, and exhaustively documented. The author defines and explains theological and biomedical jargon for the lay reader. Undergraduates will find great value in the text, as will graduate students looking for an accessible introduction to the field. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through graduate students; general readers. D. J. Daly Saint Anselm College

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Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco O.P is associate professor of biology and instructor of theology at Providence College. In biology, he is studying the genetic regulation of programmed cell death in unicellular eukaryotes, and has published research papers in Cell, PNAS, and PLoS ONE. In theology, his essays have appeared in The Thomist, NCBQ, and Nova et Vetera on bioethics and on the relationship between science and religion.