Health Care Ethics, Fifth Edition: Health Care Ethics: A Catholic Theological Analysis
"While affirming Catholic Church teaching, [the editors] address controversies within the Catholic community and challenges from without... Provides a much-needed account of social responsibility and public policy as well as the sacramental and healing dimensions of true care." --America"Clear, careful on reproductive and life issues and yet challenging, particularly in addressing matters of distributive justice and the social responsibility of health care systems and practitioners... the fifth edition offers an intriguing way of classifying ethical theories, a bit different from any traditional classification method I have seen to date." --Vision"This [book] can become a great teaching moment for the Church's magisterium." --The Thomist"The fifth edition of this classic work is equal in its quality, if not better, than earlier versions... While this work is intellectually solid, deeply grounded in scripture, theology, a humanistic natural law tradition, and various ethical approaches to bioethics, this book is remarkably 'user friendly.' I recommend this text for educated adults, undergraduates and graduate ministerial students." --Catholic Library World"What was already a stellar theological compendium of health care ethics a decade ago has been fully revised to meet the challenges of a new century, from the genome project, adult and embryonic stem cell research and genetic therapies to new controversies over end-of-life care. Clearly rooted in the Catholic, natural law and personalist traditions, it astutely weighs diverse opinions within Catholicism, as well as alternative approaches from other Christian and non-religious thinkers... A treasure." --John F. Kavanaugh, SJ, Director of Ethics Across the Curriculum, Saint Louis University"This is the most thorough revision to date of Ashley and O'Rourke's classic analysis of Catholic health care ethics. For Catholics 'doing' health care ethics or those wanting to understand Catholic thinking on foundational and controversial issues in health care it is an invaluable reference and should be in every library. Adding Jean deBlois as a third author brings a critical and new voice to this volume." --Carol R. Taylor, CSFN, RN, Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University