Medicine, health care, & ethics : Catholic voices /

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Imprint:	Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2007.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 371 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	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. Christian ethics -- Catholic authors. Medical ethics -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church. Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11166105

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Varying Form of Title:	Medicine, health care, and ethics
Other authors / contributors:	Morris, John F., 1967-
ISBN:	9780813220819 0813220815 0813214831 9780813214832
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-356) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	"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."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Medicine, health care, & ethics. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2007 0813214831

Table of 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.

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