THE QUALITY OF LIFE

by Charles P. Kindregan ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 10, 1969

Mr. Kindregan, a lawyer and teacher (Suffolk University) examines in this work several issues concerning the quality of human life in relation both to law and to morals: compulsory sterilization, artificial insemination, eugenic abortion, capital punishment, surgical transplants, and--on the less final side of life--the right to privacy, the duty of obedience or non-obedience to an ""unjust law,"" etc. Even though he writes within a legal framework, the author's views, as he writes, are contained within the limits of the traditional Judaeo-Christian ethic. Those views are, therefore, predictably ""conservative"" in certain areas (sterilization, abortion, etc.) but ""liberal"" in others (capital punishment, civil disobedience). The value of the book, however, lies not in the views of the author so much as in the well defined picture it presents of the present direction of the law, and the interrelation between law and morals, with respect to ""the quality of life."" Interesting reading, for a mature Catholic audience.

Pub Date: March 10, 1969

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Bruce

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1969

Categories: NONFICTION