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Section I: Theology, Science, and Bioethics -- Religion and the Renaissance of Medical Ethics in the United States: 1965–1975 -- Theology and Science: Their Difference as a Source of Interaction in Ethics -- Scientific and Religious Aspects of Bioethics -- Hartshorne, Theology, and the Nameless God -- The Potential of Theology for Ethics -- The Role of Theology in Bioethics -- Looking for God and Finding the Abyss: Bioethics and Natural Theology -- Section II: Foundations and Frontiers in Religious Bioethics -- Theology and Bioethics: Christian Foundations -- Theological Frontiers: Implications for Bioethics -- Contextuality and Convenant: The Pertinence of Social Theory and Theology to Bioethics -- Feminist Theology and Bioethics -- Doing Ethics in a Plural World -- Section III: Religious Reasoning about Bioethics and Medical Practice -- Salvation and Health: Why Medicine Needs the Church -- Love and Justice in Christian Biomedical Ethics -- Contemporary Jewish Bioethics: A Critical Assessment -- Medical Loyalty: Dimensions and Problems of a Rich Idea -- Responsibility for Life: Bioethics in Theological Perspective -- Epilogue: Does Theology Make a Contribution to Bioethics? -- Notes on Contributors.

Possible impacts on public policy if sex preselection technologies become widely used; based on conference paper.

chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Beings, human beings and persons -- chapter 2 Above all do no harm -- chapter 3 Must doctors help their patients? -- chapter 4 Killing: a caring thing to do? -- chapter 5 The value of life -- chapter 6 The beginnings of life -- chapter 7 Whose body is it anyway? -- chapter 8 A woman's right to choose? -- chapter 9 Sexual morality and the natural -- chapter 10 Respect for persons I -- chapter 11 Respect for persons II -- chapter 12 Death is abolished.

1. Medizinische Ethik als Reflexion und Erfahrung -- Ursprung der medizinischen Ethik in der Situation des Helfens -- Anspruch der medizinischen Ethik -- Grundthemen der medizinischen Ethik -- 2. Einzelthemen der medizinischen Ethik -- Lebensbeginn -- Lebenskrisen -- Lebensende -- Forschung -- Anhang. Textauswahl: Gesetzestexte und öffentliche Stellungnahmen -- Verzeichnis der Texte -- Gesetzestexte und öffentliche Stellungnahmen.

Whenever a genetically defective infant is born, a triptych of interests is challenged directly. For such a case not only tests the extent of the natural rights of the parents in making decisions regarding the infant's capacity for qualitative life, but the personal needs or the welfare of the child itself and the nature of the responsibilities of the State in ensuring the welfare of its citizens regardless of age or infirmity. Aggressive posturing by the United States government, through a complex regulatory scheme designed to assure protection of handicapped newborns, has in fact wreaked havoc on the whole decision-making process and assaulted the integrity and privacy of the family decisional unit. While lacking a similar governmental regulatory process of protection in England, the judiciary, nevertheless, has given a strong indication that circumstances may merit respect of parental decisions which preclude aggressive efforts being undertaken to maintain life for such infants. What would be helpful to parents, doctors and judges alike in deciding the gravity of birth impairment and ultimately whether to maintain life or allow it to abate with dignity and mercy would be criteria which would attempt to structure pragmatic medical standards for decision-making.