Page 7 - Vaccines

Contents

Contents.........................................................................................vii

Preface..............................................................................................ix
1 The existence and the use of vaccines................................1

a. Some general presuppositions.....................................................1
b. Pastoral responses and Magisterial interventions................4

c. The value and the importance of vaccination in general......10
d. Some necessary qualifications which are not to be
ignored....................................................................................................12

2 Key principles of Catholic moral theology ....................17

a. The duty never deliberately to kill an innocent human
being........................................................................................................18

b. The good of health and the medical good; the therapeutic
principle.................................................................................................19
c. Scandal as a factor in cooperation with the wrong-doing
of another..............................................................................................26

d. Public health authorities, the common good, solidarity
and subsidiarity...................................................................................40

e. Casuistry............................................................................................42
3 Moral responsibilities.............................................................45

a. The vaccine as such ......................................................................45
b. Details of vaccine production...................................................46

c. State health authorities................................................................47
d. The obligation of the State.........................................................48