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[The Catholic world and urology in the 20th/21st century].
Urologie
December 2023
Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Moorenstr. 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Deutschland.
The Catholic world is shaped by papal directives and their interpretation over time by appointed theologians. There are strict prohibitions on key questions about life and death, but in the context of the practical application of medical treatment techniques, the Vatican often remains vague. This may allow Catholic urologists to use a range of therapies that at first glance appear problematic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF"A disease of our time": The Catholic Church's condemnation and absolution of psychoanalysis (1924-1975).
J Hist Behav Sci
March 2018
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
The present paper is focused on the evolution of the position of the Catholic Church toward psychoanalysis. Even before Freud's The Future of an Illusion (1927), psychoanalysis was criticized by Catholic theologians. Psychoanalysis was viewed with either contempt or with indifference, but nonpsychoanalytic psychotherapy was accepted, especially for pastoral use.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDignity, marriage and embryo adoption: a look at Dignitas Personae.
Reprod Biomed Online
December 2011
University of Illinois College of Medicine, Department of Medical Education, 808 South Wood Street, Chicago, IL 60612-7309, United States.
The Catholic Church's 2008 Dignitas Personae discusses the moral implications of respecting the dignity of all human beings, regardless of the stage of development. In that text, the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith argues that respect for this dignity is incompatible with the conception of embryos outside marriage as well as assisted reproduction treatments and certain kinds of human embryonic research. Not only that, but the Congregation also rejects efforts at embryo adoption.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAre Catholic universities giving up reproductive medicine?
Reprod Biomed Online
December 2007
Leuven Institute for Fertility and Embryology, Tiensevest 148, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium.
The Catholic Church has established a large number of universities worldwide. A dozen have schools of medicine and the impact of church doctrine on reproductive medicine appears widely disparate between some medical schools at Catholic universities in Europe and the rest of the world. The pressure of the Vatican on the Catholic universities in Belgium to abandon IVF is mounting.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSeizures among public figures: lessons learned from the epilepsy of Pope Pius IX.
Mayo Clin Proc
December 2007
Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic Hospital, 5777 E Mayo Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85054, USA
Epilepsy is one of the most stigmatizing of neurological conditions. Understanding how epilepsy affects the lives of important historical figures illuminates the psychosocial burden of disease for modern-day patients. Pius IX, one of the most consequential Popes in Catholic history, was reported to have epilepsy.
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