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CHAPTER I
GENERAL PRINCIPLES CONCERNING SUICIDE AND HOMICIDE
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There is a Supreme Being who alone is master of life. The Natural Law. The nature and determinants of morality. Probabilism. Permissive suicide. Suicide is illicit. Conscience. Homicide, direct and indirect. Self-defence. Formal and material aggressors. Legalized homicide. Bibliography

1-22
CHAPTER II
GENERAL PRINCIPLES CONCERNING MUTILATION

Mutilation. Canonical irregularity. Self-mutilation. The double effect in morality. Direct and indirect mutilation. The State and mutilation. The dominion of the State

23-32
CHAPTER III
WHEN DOES HUMAN LIFE BEGIN?

Ancient and modern opinions. The fetus is animated at the moment of conception. The single cell as the primal life-organ. Cell growth and division. Germ cells. The development of the embryo. Fetal viability. Theories of development. The Aristotelian and Thomistic opinions. The formal principle. A soul exists. The primordial cell is a sufficient organ for the soul. Metabolism in the cell. Cell motion. Animal heat and energy. Life in separated tissues. The soul in monsters

33-82
CHAPTER IV
WHEN DOES HUMAN LIFE END?

The heart and life. Resuscitation after apparent death. The last sacraments in apparent death. Suspended animation. The living fetus in the womb of a dying or dead mother. Methods of resuscitation. Signs of death

83-91
CHAPTER V
ABORTION

Abortion and miscarriage. Causes of abortion, fetal, maternal and paternal. Surgical operations and abortion. The debitum in pregnancy. Premature labor. Threatened, inevitable, and incomplete abortions. Treatment. The use of the tampon. Precautions against abortion. Therapeutic abortion. Methods of inducing abortion. Artificial abortion of an inviable fetus is never licit. Decrees of the church concerning abortion. The civil law on abortion

92-123
CHAPTER VI
ECTOPIC GESTATION

Ectopic gestation or extrauterine pregnancy. Anatomy of the uterus and its adnexa. Place of fecundation. The abnormal uterus. Tubal rupture and tubal abortion. Diagnosis. Decrees of the church on ectopic gestation. Removal of an inviable ectopic fetus except in present peril of life is illicit

124-132
CHAPTER VII
CESAREAN DELIVERY

Indications for cesarean delivery. Abnormal pelves. Symphyseotomy. Varieties of cesarean delivery. Morality. Amputation of the uterus after cesarean delivery. Precautionary sterilization of a cesarean case is illicit

133-142
CHAPTER VIII
PLACENTA PRAEVIA AND ABRUPTIO PLACENTAE

Nature and effects of placenta praevia. Treatment. Morality and methods of treatment. Abruptio placentae. Morality of fetal removal

143-146
CHAPTER IX
ABDOMINAL TUMORS IN PREGNANCY

Tumors blocking parturition. Fibroids or myomata. Ovarian tumors. Cancer. Effects and morality of operation

147-152
CHAPTER X
APPENDICITIS IN PREGNANCY

Occurrence. Time of operation. Diagnosis

153-154
CHAPTER XI
PUERPERAL INSANITY AND STERILIZATION

Causes. Varieties. Prognosis. Precautionary sterilization of puerperal psychopaths is illicit

155-157
CHAPTER XII
NEPHRITIS IN PREGNANCY

Frequency. Effects. Abortion as a treatment. Varieties of nephritis. Pyelitis. Catalepsy

158-161
CHAPTER XIII
ECLAMPSIA PARTURIENTIUM

Definition. Symptoms. Prognosis. Causes. Precautions against eclampsia. Forced delivery. The expectant treatment. Relative mortality and morality of the methods. Cesarean delivery as a treatment. The expectant treatment is apparently the best

162-169
CHAPTER XIV
HEART DISEASES IN PREGNANCY

Factors in abnormal gestation. The use of pituitrin. Weak pains and the diseased heart. The diseased heart in actual parturition. Operative risk in cardiopaths. Heart block and mitral regurgitation in labor. Prognosis

170-176
CHAPTER XV
HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM

Pernicious vomiting. Occurrence. Symptoms. Stages. Effects. Causes. Therapeutic abortion in pernicious vomiting. Treatment

177-181
CHAPTER XVI
CHOREA GRAVIDARUM AND HYSTERIA

Varieties of chorea. Differentiation. Prognosis. Hysteria. Causes. Epidemics of hysteria. Symptoms. Prognosis

182-186
CHAPTER XVII
ACUTE YELLOW ATROPHY OF THE LIVER IN PREGNANCY

Icterus gravis. Causes. Symptoms. Prognosis

187-188
CHAPTER XVIII
INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN PREGNANCY

Effects on mother and fetus. Abortions in infectious diseases. Placental permeability. Typhoid. Smallpox. Pneumonia. Influenza. Scarlatina. Measles. Cholera. Tuberculosis. Artificial abortion in tuberculosis

189-200
CHAPTER XIX
SYPHILIS IN PREGNANCY AND MARRIAGE

Prognosis. Abortion. Infection of mother and fetus. Colles' Law. Erroneous notions on the curability of syphilis. Once a syphilitic probably always a syphilitic. The professional secret in syphilis. Nature of secrets. The physician may warn an innocent person

201-211
CHAPTER XX
GONORRHOEA IN MARRIAGE

The cause of gonorrhoea. Tests of cure. Effects on a woman. Chronicity. Prevalence. Surgical treatment in women. Morality of the surgical treatment. Conservative surgery. Salpingotomy. Ovariotomy. Evil effects of ovariotomy. Internal secretion of the ovary. Results of various operations. Pregnancy after operation. Morality of infection. General effects of gonorrhoea. Ophthalmia neonatorum and gonorrhoea

212-229
CHAPTER XXI
DIABETES IN PREGNANCY

Fatality of diabetes in pregnancy. Diagnosis. Sterility of diabetics. Prognosis. Heredity in diabetes. Therapeutic abortion in diabetes

230-231
CHAPTER XXII
CHILDBIRTH IN TWILIGHT SLEEP

Twilight sleep to avert pain in parturition. Stages of labor. Drugs used. Scopolamine and morphine. Danger in the use of these drugs in labor. Contradictory report of physicians on twilight sleep. Eminent authorities opposed to the methods. Baer's report on the evil effects. The methods are morally illicit and useless

232-244
CHAPTER XXIII
VASECTOMY, OR STERILIZATION, BY STATE LAW

The States that have this law. Reasons for the law. Hereditary transmission of certain diseases. The operation. Its effects. Restoration of the function of the interrupted vas deferens. Vasectomy and impotence. Onanism. Vasectomy effects impotence from the moral point of view. Other conditions in the male that effect moral impotence. Immorality of artificial impregnation. Vasectomy a grave mutilation. Vasectomy as ordinarily practised is illicit. The State and vasectomy. The limitations of the State's dominion. The State surgeon and vasectomy. Bibliography

245-268
CHAPTER XXIV
THE ETHICS OF BIRTH CONTROL 269
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