Medicine, Health Care, and Ethics Catholic Voices

Name: Medicine, Health Care, and Ethics Catholic Voices
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ISBN: 9780813214832

ISBN-10: 0813214831

ISBN-13: 9780813214832

Edition: 2007

Authors: John F. Morris

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From Its Earliest Beginnings, the Catholic Church has cared for the sick and dying of the world as an extension of the healing ministry of Jesus. As a natural consequence, Catholics have regularly addressed moral issues relating to health care long before the term "bioethics" was coined. Beginning with a deeply nuanced, holistic understanding of the human person as their foundation, Catholic scholars have developed a person-centered ethic with which to approach ethical dilemmas that is understandable and defensible in the light of natural human reason, yet which is compatible with the teachings and doctrine of the Church--emphasizing the harmony of faith and reason within the Catholic moral…

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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Publication date: 6/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Preface : raising our voices



Why "Catholic" health care ethics?



Wounded humanity and Catholic health care




What counts as respect?



Selected bibliography on Catholic bioethics



Human reproduction



New reproductive technologies and Catholic teaching




Contraception : did Humane Vitae contradict itself?




Abortion : a Catholic moral analysis



Selected bibliography on human reproduction



Death and dying



Medically assisted nutrition and hydration in medicine and moral theology




Two arguments against euthanasia



Selected bibliography on death and dying



Genetics, stem cell research, and cloning



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



Selected bibliography on genetics, stem cells, and cloning



Health care reform



Health care reform : justice and the common good




Health care reform and the "consistent ethic"



Selected bibliography on health care reform