Medicine, health care, & ethics Catholic voices / [electronic resource] : Medicine, health care, and ethics edited by John F. Morris. - Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2007. - 1 online resource (xv, 371 p.)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-356) and index.

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

9780813220819 (electronic bk.) 0813220815 (electronic bk.)


Medical ethics--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Medicine--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Christian ethics--Catholic authors.
Catholicism.
Ethics, Medical.
Genetics, Medical--ethics.
Health Care Reform--ethics.
Religion and Medicine.
Reproductive Medicine--ethics.
RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ethics


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