“Catholic, but not According to the Rules”: Assisted Reproduction and Catholic Doctors in Belgium, 1940s–1980s

This article elucidates how Catholic doctors in Belgium, a dominantly Catholic country that was home to the largest Catholic university in Europe, creatively handled church teachings on assisted reproduction from roughly the 1940s until the 1980s. Catholic thought on reproductive medicine is mostly...

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Main Author: Claes, Tinne (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2021
In: Journal of religious history
Year: 2021, Volume: 45, Issue: 3, Pages: 390-411
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Belgium / Catholicism / Reproductive medicine / In-vitro fertilization / History 1940-1990
RelBib Classification:CF Christianity and Science
CH Christianity and Society
KBB German language area
KBD Benelux countries
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