Medicine, health care, & ethics : Catholic voices

Medicine, health care, & ethics : Catholic voices /

This book presents a collection of contemporary essays that represent the very best efforts of current Catholic scholarship in the field of health care and medical ethics. The book begins with an introductory section that explains the basic foundations of the personalist approach to ethics and its d...

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Other Authors: Morris, John F., 1967- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2007].
Subjects:
Medical ethics > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Medicine > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Christian ethics > Catholic authors.
Medicine > Religious aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • PART I. Why "Catholic" health care ethics?
  • 1. Wounded humanity and Catholic health care / John Kavanaugh
  • 2. What counts as respect? / Gregory R. Beabout
  • PART II. Human reproduction
  • 3. New reproductive technologies and Catholic teaching / William E. May
  • 4. Contraception: did 'Humane vitae' contradict itself? / Benedict Ashley
  • 5. Abortion: a Catholic moral analysis / Jeanne Heffernan Schindler
  • PART III. Death and dying
  • 6. Medically assisted nutrition and hydration in medicine and moral theology / John Berkman
  • 7. Two arguments against euthanasia / Brendan Sweetman
  • PART IV. Genetics, stem cell research, and cloning
  • 8. Genetics and ethics: questions raised by the Human Genome Project / Kevin D. O'Rourke
  • 9. Genetic enhancement as freedom of choice: the myth / Catherine Green
  • 10. Stem cells, cloning, and the human person / John F. Morris
  • PART V. Health care reform
  • 11. Health care reform: justice and the common good / Clarke E. Cochran
  • 12. Health care reform and the "consistent ethic" / Michael D. Place.

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