Title: Health and medicine in the Catholic tradition :
Authors: McCormick, Richard A.,
Date: 1984
Publisher: Crossroad,
Physical description: xii, 173 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: B
Contents: Introduction -- "Ethical Guidelines for Catholic Health Care Institutions" -- Introduction ; Guidelines -- Well-Being -- Authority and Leadership ; A Christian Notion of Leadership ; The Depth of Well-Being ; An Interpretive Understanding of the Christian Moral Life ; The Relativizing Influence of the Love Command ; A Christian View of the Health Care Profession -- Morality -- The Source of Moral Problems ; The Means for Forming a Correct Conscience ; The Preconciliar Magisterium ; The Postconciliar Magisterium ; The Problem of Remaining Uncertainty and Doubt -- Justice in Health Care -- Sexuality -- Saint Augustine ; Saint Thomas ; From Saint Thomas to Casti connubii ; Casti connubii ; Since Casti Connubii ; Vatican II and Beyond -- Dignity, Passages, Madness, Suffering, Dying -- The Dignity of the Sick and the Dying ; Prenatal Life ; The Newborn ; The Retarded ; "Ethical Guidelines for the Treatment of the Mentally Retarded" ; The Aged -- Conclusion.
Subject headings (LCSH): Catholic Church--Doctrines.; Medical ethics.; Medicine--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.