Life and Learning X - 2000 Table of Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgments viii
I. Bioethics
What Is "Bioethics"? (Quid est "Bioethics"?)
Dianne N. Irving 1
Decision at The End of Life: The Use and Abuse
of the Concept of Futility
Edmund Pellegrino 85
II. Questions of Worldview
John J. Conley, S.J. 111
Taking Abortion Seriously: A Philosophical Critique
of the New Prolife Rhetorical Shift
Francis J. Beckwith 119
Gaudium et Spes as a Blueprint for the Culture of Life
Robert F. Gotcher 141
Sowing the Wind, Reaping the Whirlwind: From Frederick
Taussig’s Abortion: Spontaneous and Induced (1936)
to Warren Hern’s Abortion Practice (1984)
Samuel W. Calhoun 169
Life after Communism: Democracy and Abortion
in Eastern Europe and Russia
Patrick J. Flood 179
III. Anthropological and Sociological Perspectives
Does Premature Intercourse Delay Psychological Maturation?
An Analysis of Outcome Data of the 1998-99 Teen STAR Program
Hanna Klaus, M.D. 225
Anthropological Differences between Contraception
and Natural Family Planning
Richard J. Fehring and William Kurz, S.J. 237
Relinquishment of Motherhood: Concept Analysis
Teresa La Monica 265
Abortion Practice as a Perpetration-Induced Trauma
Rachel M. MacNair 273
The Birth Control Pill: Abortifacient and Contraceptive
William Colliton, Jr., M.D. 291
IV. Literary Perspectives
Bizarre Fiction on the Right-to-Life Issues
Jeff Koloze 307
Sentiment, Science, and Thanatos in the Work of Walker Percy
Francis E. Zapatka 321
Bernadette Waterman Ward 333
V. a global perspective
Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
John C. Willke, M.D. 343
UFL Board 367