Medicine, Health Care, & Ethics:
Catholic Voices
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface: Raising Our Voices
Part I: Why ?Catholic? Health Care Ethics?
Chapter 1: Wounded Humanity and Catholic Health Care:
Some Contemporary Thinkers Have Forgotten What "Healing" Really Means
Rev. John Kavanaugh, S.J.
Chapter 2: What Counts as Respect?
Gregory R. Beabout
Selected Bibliography on Catholic Bioethics
Part II: Human Reproduction
Chapter 3: New Reproductive Technologies and Catholic Teaching
William E. May
Chapter 4: Contraception: A Hard Saying
Did Humane Vitae Contradict Itself?
Benedict Ashley, O.P.
Chapter 5: Abortion: A Catholic Moral Analysis
Jeanne Heffernan
Selected Bibliography on Human Reproduction
Part III: Death & Dying
Chapter 6: Medically Assisted Nutrition And Hydration In Medicine And Moral Theology:
A Contextualization Of Its Past And A Direction For Its Future
John Berkman
Chapter 7: Two Arguments Against Euthanasia
Brendan Sweetman
Selected Bibliography on Death & Dying
Part IV: Genetics, Stem Cell Research, & Cloning
Chapter 8: Genetics and Ethics
Is the Ministry Prepared to Answer Ethical Questions Raised by the Human
Genome Project?
Rev. Kevin D. O?Rourke, O.P.
Chapter 9: Genetic Enhancement as Freedom of Choice: The Myth
Catherine Green
Chapter 10: Stem Cells, Cloning, and the Human Person
John F. Morris
Selected Bibliography on Genetics, Stem Cells, and Cloning
Part V: Health Care Reform
Chapter 11: Health Care Reform:
Justice and the Common Good
Clarke E. Cochran
Chapter 12: Healthcare Reform and the ?Consistent Ethic?
Card. Bernardin?s Phrase Illuminates the Ministry?s Stand on Accessible and
Affordable Healthcare
Rev. Michael D. Place
Selected Bibliography on Health Care Reform
General Bibliography
Index (forthcoming)