CATHOLIC MEDICAL ETHICS: CORE READINGS

Abstract

Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Introduction to medical ethics / Patrick Guinan and Theodore Jagielo - - Catholic doctors: higher witnesses / Pope John Paul -- The purpose of healing / Stanley L. Jaki -- The doctor: teacher, pastor and prophet / Jerome E. Listecki -- The physician and the mystery of suffering / John E. Bamberger -- Fetal tissue research: the cu1ting edge? / Keith A. Crutcher -- Submission to the committee on the ethics of gene therapy / The Joint Ethico-Medical Committee of the Catholic Union of Great Britain and the Guild of Catholic Doctors -- Abortifacient drugs and devices: medical and moral dilemmas / Kristine M. Severyn -- Psychiatric sequelae of abortion: the many faces of post-abortion grief / E. Joanne Angelo -- Education in wholesome chastity / National Federation of Catholic Physicians' Guilds' Position Paper on Sex Education -- A Pastoral statement on condom distribution in public schools / The New York State Catholic Bishops -- Marriage and contraception / Cormac Burke -- Eugenics, euthanasia and genocide / Kenneth L. Garver and Bettylee Garver -- Religion and the moral meaning of euthanasia / Courtney S. Campbell -- Instruction for health care administrators / John J. Myers