Contraception and Anesthesia: A Reply to James DuBois
This is a response to James Dubois’ “Is anesthesia intrinsically wrong?” I do not address many of the claims in this article but only DuBois’ use of the moral evaluation of the medical use of anesthesia as a counter example to two lines of reasoning developed to defend the traditional Catholic prohi...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2010]
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Christian bioethics
Year: 2008, Volume: 14, Issue: 2, Pages: 217-225 |
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| Summary: | This is a response to James Dubois’ “Is anesthesia intrinsically wrong?” I do not address many of the claims in this article but only DuBois’ use of the moral evaluation of the medical use of anesthesia as a counter example to two lines of reasoning developed to defend the traditional Catholic prohibition of contraception. Elizabeth Anscombe's dialectical defense of this teaching does not imply that such a defense must logically apply to the use of anesthesia. John Finnis’ defense of this teaching on the basis of a natural law argument does not imply that consciousness is a basic human good. |
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| ISSN: | 1744-4195 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christian bioethics
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