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Medicine, health care, & ethics : Catholic voices / edited by John F. Morris.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical ethics--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
- Medical ethics.
- Medicine--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
- Medicine.
- Christian ethics--Catholic authors.
- Christian ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (390 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Medicine, Health Care, and Ethics adds to this rich tradition with a collection of contemporary essays that represent the very best efforts of current Catholic scholarship in the field of health care and medical ethics.
- Contents:
- Wounded humanity and Catholic health care : some contemporary thinkers have forgotten what "healing" really means / John Kavanaugh
- What counts as respect? / Gregory R. Beabout
- New reproductive technologies and Catholic teaching / William E. May
- Contraception : a hard saying did humane vitae contradict itself? / Benedict Ashley
- Abortion: a Catholic moral analysis / Jeanne Heffernan
- Medically assisted nutrition and hydration in medicine and moral theology : a contextualization of its past and a direction for its future / John Berkman
- Two arguments against euthanasia / Brendan Sweetman
- Genetics and ethics : Is the ministry prepared to answer ethical 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
- Healthcare reform and the "consistent ethic"? : Card. Bernardin's phrase illuminates the ministry's stand on accessible and affordable healthcare / Michael D. Place.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8132-2081-5
- OCLC:
- 815970280
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