Resources
What it Means to be Human:
Implications for Public Policy & Bioethics
O. Carter Snead
Professor of Law & Political Science
Director of the DeNicola Center for Ethics & Culture
The University of Notre Dame
Why Anthropology Matters
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Carter Snead. What it means to be human: The case for the body in public bioethics. Harvard University Press, October 13, 2020
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Robert Bellah et al. Habits of the Heart: Individualism & Commitment in American Life. University of California Press, 2007
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James Mumford. Bioethics of the strong. The New Atlantis. Winter 2021
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John Evans. The social context of religion in the jurisdictions of bioethics. American Journal of Bioethics, November 2020, pages 1-4
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David Yamane. Introduction: "Habits of the Heart" at 20. Sociology of Religion, 2007
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David S. Lutz. An historical conversation: Four political scientists review "Habits of the Heart" by Robert Bellah et al. Journal of Politics, August 1986.
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John Paul II. The Gospel of Life. March 25, 1995
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Salvatore J. Cordileone. Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. May 1, 2021
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Phil Van Stockum. A detailed synopsis of Peter Singer's Practical Ethics. Ab Initio, June 10, 2018
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Guttmacher Institute. Fact Sheet: Induced Abortion in the United States. September 2019
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Lisa Harris, Second trimester abortion provision: Breaking the silence and changing the discourse. Reproductive Health Matters, 2008
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Katie Watson. Abortion as a moral good. The Lancet, March 23, 2019
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Adolfo Castañeda. What is the theology of the body? Human Life international, October 9, 2020
Anthropology of Abortion Rights
Assisted Reproductive technology
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Editorial. The alarming rise of complex genetic testing in human embryo selection. Nature, March 24, 2022
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Pasquale Patrizio et al. The changing world of IVF: the pros and cons of new business models offering assisted reproductive technologies. Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics. January 20, 2022
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Assisted reproductive technology global market report. Business Wire, February 8, 2022
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Michael Cook. Ukraine's surrogacy hatchery. MercatorNet, May 15, 2020
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Kristin Collier. The Theobiology of a Mother's Voice. Church Life Journal. March 3, 2020
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Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Instruction Dignitas personae on certain bioethical questions, June 20, 2008
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Brendan Foht. While Bioethics Fiddles. The New Atlantis. Winter 2019
Public Bioethics & the End of Life
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Lydia Dugdale. The Lost Art of Dying: Recovering Lost Wisdom. HarperOne, 2020
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Jose A. Bufill. A short history of voluntary death. MercatorNet, May 21, 2008
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Herbert Hendin & Kathleen Foley. Physician-assisted suicide in Oregon: A medical perspective. Michigan Law Review, June, 2008, pages1613-1640.
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YouTube video of Sam Keen on Ernest Becker.
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Sam Keen. The Heroics of Everyday Life: A Conversation with Ernest Becker, In Voices & Visions, 1974, pages 175-198.
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Lydia Dugdale et al. Pros and cons of physician aid in dying. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 2019, 92: 747-750
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Sheldon Solomon. Humanity at the crossroads. TEDxSkidmore College, 2015
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O. Carter Snead. The Anthropology of Expressive Individualism. Church Life Journal, December 1, 2020