title: Defense of Dignity: Creating Life, Destroying Life, and Protecting the Rights of Conscience (Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics)
author: Christopher Kaczor
description: "This is an original, well-researched book of enormous interpretive richness and subtley whose readings unostemtatiously but tenaciouly and persuasively build on and reinforce each other. It is certain to become a set text for students of medieval English drama." (Sarah Beckwith)
zlib_text: PHILOSOPHY
  AND 
  MEDICINE
  The Edge 
  of Life
  Human Dignity and
  Contemporary Bioethics
  by Christopher Kaczor
  
  THE EDGE OF LIFE
  
  Philosophy and Medicine
  VOLUME 85
  Founding Co-Editor
  Stuart F. Spicker
  Editor
  H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Department of Philosophy, Rice University, and Baylor
  College of Medicine, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
  Associate Editor
  Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Loyola University, New Orleans, U.S.A.
  CATHOLIC STUDIES IN BIOETHICS 4
  Series Founding Co-Editors
  John Collins Harvey, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
  Francesc Abel, Institut Borja de Bioetica, Centre Borja, Barcelona, Spain
  Series Editor
  Christopher Tollefsen, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
  Editorial Advisory Board
  Joseph Boyle, St. Michael’s College, Toronto, Canada
  Thomas Cavanaugh, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
  Mark Cherry, St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
  Ana Smith Iltis, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
  
  THE EDGE OF LIFE
  HUMAN DIGNITY AN