Book Review: Death, Dying, and the Biological Revolution: Our Last Quest for Responsibility

cisely state all the dilemmas produced by the interdisciplinary nature of bioethics; (2) the specific values or ethical principles involved in the situation must be stated clearly and precisely and ordered coherently; (3) the positions adopted by the associations in which one has membership must be investigated. S. states that "this book represents one part of the methodology suggested in this chapter," namely, presentation of a variety of views on a number of different topics which will stimulate the emergence of different values that can be examined critically in relationship to one another. Only then can an analysis of specific issues take place with a view to drawing specific conclusions. S.'s book is welcomed as an attempt to emphasize the religious-ethical contribution to the bioethical analysis of medical-technological questions. It could serve as an upper-division or graduate reader. Its openness and perceptive choice of authors and articles are refreshing. However, as a R.C. religious-ethical methodological work, it should be supplemented by articles such as Charles E. Curran's "Present State of Moral Theology," TS 34 (1973) 446-67, and Daniel Maguire's chapter "Ethics: How to Do It," in his Death by Choice (1975).