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Medicine, health care, & ethics [electronic resource] : Catholic voices / edited by John F. Morris.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2007.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 371 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780813220819 (electronic bk.)
  • 0813220815 (electronic bk.)
Other title:
  • Medicine, health care, and ethics
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Medicine, health care, & ethics.DDC classification:
  • 241/.642 22
LOC classification:
  • R725.56 .M443 2007eb
NLM classification:
  • 2007 G-051
  • W 50
Online resources:
Contents:
Wounded humanity and Catholic health care / John Kavanaugh -- What counts as respect? / Gregory R. Beabout -- New reproductive technologies and Catholic teaching / William E. May -- Contraception : did humane vitae contradict itself? / Benedict Ashley -- Abortion: a Catholic moral analysis / Jeanne Heffernan Schindler -- Medically assisted nutrition and hydration in medicine and moral theology / John Berkman -- Two arguments against euthanasia / Brendan Sweetman -- Genetics and ethics : questions raised by the Human Genome Project / Kevin D. O'Rourke -- Genetic enhancement as freedom of choice : the myth / Catherine Green -- Stem cells, cloning, and the human person / John F. Morris -- Health care reform : justice and the common good / Clarke E. Cochran -- Health care reform and the "consistent ethic" / Michael D. Place.
Review: "Medicine, Health Care, and Ethics 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. With general overviews for each section, and topic specific bibliographies to guide further study, this volume is designed to provide a greater understanding and deeper appreciation of the Catholic perspective on health care and medicine for both newcomers and seasoned students of bioethics."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-356) and index.

Wounded humanity and Catholic health care / John Kavanaugh -- What counts as respect? / Gregory R. Beabout -- New reproductive technologies and Catholic teaching / William E. May -- Contraception : did humane vitae contradict itself? / Benedict Ashley -- Abortion: a Catholic moral analysis / Jeanne Heffernan Schindler -- Medically assisted nutrition and hydration in medicine and moral theology / John Berkman -- Two arguments against euthanasia / Brendan Sweetman -- Genetics and ethics : questions raised by the Human Genome Project / Kevin D. O'Rourke -- Genetic enhancement as freedom of choice : the myth / Catherine Green -- Stem cells, cloning, and the human person / John F. Morris -- Health care reform : justice and the common good / Clarke E. Cochran -- Health care reform and the "consistent ethic" / Michael D. Place.

"Medicine, Health Care, and Ethics 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. With general overviews for each section, and topic specific bibliographies to guide further study, this volume is designed to provide a greater understanding and deeper appreciation of the Catholic perspective on health care and medicine for both newcomers and seasoned students of bioethics."--BOOK JACKET.

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