The Challenge of Reproductive Medicine at Catholic Universities

Time to Leave the Catacombs

edited by I. Brosens

Book cover: The Challenge of Reproductive Medicine at Catholic Universities

Extent: 263 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Medicine, Philosophy

Language: English

(Paperback) (Published)

(June 2006)

ISBN: 9789042917620

Price: $49.00

In stock

New technologies, developing at an unbelievable pace, have profoundly changed many areas of reproductive medicine including fertility control, infertility treatment, embryology, prenatal diagnosis and fetal surgery. These fields of modern reproductive medicine are all flourishing at Catholic universities in the Low Countries, Belgium and Holland. However, contraceptive techniques, assisted reproductive technologies, preimplantation genetic diagnosis and embryonic stem cell research are deeply dividing Catholic universities around the world. Are Catholic universities in the Low Countries heading silently towards a schism with Rome? Or is modern reproductive medicine based on personalist ethics and practiced at progressive Catholic universities compatible with the Catholic doctrine?

  • Edited by I Brosens