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The Roman Catholic Tradition and Bioethics

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Bioethics Yearbook

Part of the book series: Bioethics Yearbook ((BIYB,volume 3))

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This essay continues into the period from the middle of 1990 to the middle of 1992 the survey of Catholic writings on bioethics that I prepared for the first volume of this Yearbook. The Catholic literature bearing on bioethical issues continues to be extensive. I have used the same principles of selection for this survey as for the first ([8], p. 5).

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    Boyle, J. (1993). The Roman Catholic Tradition and Bioethics. In: Lustig, B.A., Brody, B.A., Engelhardt, H.T., McCullough, L.B. (eds) Bioethics Yearbook. Bioethics Yearbook, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1886-6_2

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