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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818298403321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, 2007

ISBN

0-8132-2081-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (390 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MorrisJohn F. <1967->

Disciplina

241/.642

Soggetti

Medical ethics - Religious aspects - Catholic Church

Medicine - Religious aspects - Catholic Church

Christian ethics - Catholic authors

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.