Biomedicine and beatitude : an introduction to Catholic bioethics / Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco.

Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, [2011], ©2011.

xiv, 327 pages ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-305) and indexes.

Bioethics and the pursuit of beatitude -- Bioethics at the beginning of life -- Bioethics and human procreation -- Bioethics and the clinical encounter -- Bioethics at the end of life -- Bioethics, organ donation, and transplantation -- Research bioethics from the bench to the bedside -- Catholic bioethics in a pluralistic society.