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

    • Title:Medicine, health care, & ethics : Catholic voices / edited by John F. Morris.
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    • Variant Title:Medicine, health care, and ethics
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Morris, John F., 1967-
    • Published/Created:Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2007.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Medical ethics--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
      Medicine--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
      Christian ethics--Catholic authors.
    • Medical Subjects: Catholicism.
      Ethics, Medical.
      Genetics, Medical--ethics.
      Health Care Reform--ethics.
      Religion and Medicine.
      Reproductive Medicine--ethics.
    • Description:xv, 371 p. ; 23 cm
    • 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."--BOOK JACKET.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-356) and index.
    • ISBN:0813214831 (pbk. : alk. paper)
      9780813214832 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • 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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