MISCELLANEOUS Reproduction Rollercoaster, Infertility and the Assisted Reproductive Technologies We now have reached the era where many view absolute control over reproduction as desirable, attainable, and the necessary key to truly achieve equality between the sexes. As was never before in the past, we can sex without having children and have children without having sex. There are many who hail these development as a blessing while others view this trend as a curse. The information presented will allow the reader to understand the problems of infertility, and to recognize and discern the ramifications of the assisted reproductive technologies that are flourishing all around us. The Question of In Vitro Fertlization: Studies in Medicine, Law and Ethics Topics • Test Tube Babies Are Babies Genetic Engineering The possibilities of genetic engineering are awesome. As scientists discover the power to redesign organisms, create new ones, and control many new, formerly mysterious aspects of reproduction, they discover also that problems have multiplied. Because genetic engineering is now within the reach of scientists, is it therefore also within their right? If so, to what extent? What are the legal, social, theological, ethical, and moral issues that now lie exposed as a network of interrelated problems? In this book, J. Kerby Anderson presents an appraisal of the achievements and capabilities of geneticists, offering a balanced discussion of both the benefits and the various implications that call for thoughtful consideration and restraint. Medical Ethics, Human Ethics: A Christian Perspective We hold the mystery of life in our hands—to embrace, to cherish, to enhance. In recent years, society's technical capacity to treat illness and disease has increased rapidly. But what is the cost of this technology, both in dollars and in quality of life? Medical Ethics, Human Choices addresses the hard questions of medical ethics from a Christian perspective—questions that individuals and families are often forced to face alone: • Does the ability to treat automatically dictate responsibility to do so? The Anesthetic Society Donald DeMarco is one of the brightest Catholic philosophers on the international scene today. A man of deep faith, both well-educated and widely read, DeMarco combines insights from a wide range of disciplines into a clear and concise application of basic Truths to the fundamental problems of human life. In The Anesthetic Society , he traces modern man's flight into commercialism, and a host of generally selfish relationships. DeMarco analyzes this flight as man's blind attempt to anesthetize himself to the reality of natural life and death. But only by facing reality squarely, argues the author, can people mature and fulfill their true potential as special creatures of God. The Doctor and Christian Marriage Dr. H.P. Dunn has been a practicing and internationally renowned obstetrician and gynecologist for the past forty years. During that time, he has delivered some 15,000 babies and seen at least an equal number of gynecological patients. The purpose of this book is to present the picture of God's plan in marriage as seen by the Catholic obstetrician and gynecologist in order to encourage young people to live a truly Christian marriage in a world which proclaims its ideals to be beyond reach. In these pages—replete with case histories and historical documentation—medical expertise and fidelity to the teaching of the Church are combined to give the reader a sound background in marriage, childbearing, contraception, natural family planning, abortion, sterilization, artificial insemination and new medical technologies. Engaged and married couples, doctors, pastors, teachers, and seminarians will all find The Doctor and Christian Marriage informative and timely. |