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Like its predecessor, Contemporary Controversies in Catholic Bioethics, this volume gathers together an array of Catholic scholars with expertise in theology, philosophy, medicine, ethics, health administration, and pastoral care. Expanding the range of bioethical issues from the previous volume, the topics treated within this volume include transgender identity, disability, public and global health, and artificial intelligence, as well as specific controversies that arose during the COVID-19 pandemic concerning the allocation of scarce life-sustaining resources and vaccination policies. Drawing upon the Catholic Church’s intellectual tradition and more recent bioethical teachings, two chapters address each topic representing diverse, sometimes divergent, perspectives. This volume will be a valuable resource for scholars in bioethics or Catholic studies, who will benefit from the nuanced arguments offered based on the latest research. This volume will also be instructive for students entering the field to become aware of the founding philosophical and theological principles informing the Catholic bioethical worldview.

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Author:   Jason T. Eberl
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:  

9783032088611

ISBN 10:   3032088615
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   08 February 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: Persons with Diverse Identities.- Chapter 2. The Bioethics of Disability and Some Neglected Goods.- Chapter 3. The Importance of Theological Anthropology for Bioethics in the Key of Disability.- Chapter 4. Accompanying the Transgender Patient in Catholic Health Care: Morally Permissible Interventions.- Chapter 5. Epistemic Humility, Intuitive Cognition, and the Care of Transgender Persons.- Part II: Public and Global Health.- Chapter 6. More than the Greatest Good for the Greatest Number: Developing a Catholic Public Health Ethic.- Chapter 7. Public Health Care Ethics: Applying Catholic Social Teaching using the G-O-A-LS Method.- Chapter 8. Global Health Ethics.- Chapter 9. Taking Responsibility for Consequences in Faith-Based Global Mission Work: Insights from Modern Catholic Missionaries.- Part III: Pandemic Policies.- Chapter 10. Triage and the Patient-Physician Relationship.- Chapter 11. What Is “Ethics as Usual” Under Crisis Standards of Care?.- Chapter 12. Catholic Vaccine Ethics: Reexamining the Role of Virtues, Moral Principles, and Magisterial Teachings.- Chapter 13. Vaccine Mandates Serve the Common Good.- Part IV: Artificial Intelligence.- Chapter 14. Catholic Counsel for the Virtuous Use of AI in Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Health Care.- Chapter 15. Bioethics and Generative AI: A Casuist Approach to Operationalizing Aspirational Insights.

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​Jason T. Eberl, Ph.D. is the Hubert Mäder Chair in Bioethics, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Albert Gnaegi Center for Bioethics at Saint Louis University. His research interests include the philosophy of human nature and its application to issues at the margins of life; ethical issues related to end-of-life care, biotechnology, and healthcare allocation; and the philosophical thought of Thomas Aquinas. He is the author of Thomistic Principles and Bioethics, The Routledge Guidebook to Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae, and The Nature of Human Persons: Metaphysics and Bioethics, as well as editor of Contemporary Controversies in Catholic Bioethics. He has published articles in Annals of Internal Medicine, CHEST, Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, The Linacre Quarterly, Health Care Ethics USA, Health Progress, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Christian Bioethics, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, American Journal of Bioethics, and Bioethics.

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