Medical Ethics



The Moral Limits of Medical Research and Treatment Pope Pius XII

Dangers of Genetic Manipulation Pope John Paul II

Responses to questions proposed concerning uterine isolation and related matters 1993 document of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Considering Synthia: What Is Synthetic Biology All About? By Dr Murdo Macdonald in Thinking Faith: The Online Journal of the English Jesuits, May 2010

Morality of Patenting Living Organism By Fr Seán McDonagh, SSC, June 2009

Right Tune, Wrong Words: The Muffled Wisdom of 'Dignitas Personae' By Charles Camosy in Commonweal, June 5, 2009

Dignitas Personae: A New Vatican Document on Bioethics By Dr David Jones in Thinking Faith: The Online Journal of the English Jesuits, January 2009

Levinas and Responsibility for the Other: A Practical Theological Analysis of Cases of Nancy Crick & Terri Schiavo By Patrick McArdle in Australian EJournal of Theology, March 2009

Forces of Death and the Promise of Life in Papua New Guinea By Philip Gibbs SVD in Australian EJournal of Theology, August 2009

A Pastoral Paradigm of Catholic Health Care By Mark Shaw in Australian EJournal of Theology, July 2008

An Ethical Look at Human-Animal Embryos By Dr. David Albert Jones in Thinking Faith: The Online Journal of the English Jesuits, May 2008

Human Dignity or Freedom of Research? An Ethical Debate on the Embryonic Stem Cell Research By J. Charles Davis, Sankt Georgen, Frankfurt, Germany, in Jnanadeepa: Pune Journal of Religious Studies, 2008

Natality. A Theological Approach to an Anthropological Basic Concept in the Context of Bioethics By UHJ Körtner in Verbum et Ecclesia, 2007

Towards a Theology of HIV/AIDS By A van Wyngaard in Verbum et Ecclesia, 2006

Kentucky's Advance Health Care Directives and Organ Donation: A Catholic Perspective Catholic bishops of Kentucky, September 2005

A Jewish Guide to the Moral Maze of Hi-Tech Medicine By Mark Washofsky in Reform Judaism Online, Fall 2005. Is it morally permissible to remove artificial nutrition and hydration from a patient who would otherwise continue to live?

Catholics, Jews & Stem Cells: When Believers Beg to Differ By William A. Galston in Commonweal, May 20, 2005

From Mutilation to Donation: The Evolution of Catholic Moral Theology regarding Organ Transplantation Excerpts of a lecture by Albert R. Jonsen, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Ethics in Medicine, University of Washington. Delivered for the Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought, March 2005

Joint Statement on the Vegetative State By the World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations and the Pontifical Academy for Life, March 2004

Final Communiqué on "The Dignity of Human Procreation and Reproductive Technologies: Anthropological and Ethical Aspects" Tenth General Assembly, Pontifical Academy for Life, February 2004

The Contribution of Proportionism to Bioethical Deliberation in a Moderately Post Scientific Age By Terence Lovat in Theology@McAuley, 2003

Stem Cell Technology and Other Innovative Therapies Proceedings of the Working Group, The Pontifical Academy of Sciences, November 2003

Concluding Communiqué on the "Ethics of Biomedical Research: For a Christian Vision" Ninth General Assembly, Pontifical Academy for Life, February 2003

Issues in Islamic Biomedical Ethics: A Primer for the Pediatrician By Kamyar M. Hedayat in Pediatrics, 2001

Scientific discoveries must be examined in the light of faith By Bishop Thomas L. Dupré, Bishop of Springfield, 2001

Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, Fourth Edition United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, June 2001

Cloning Humans: Distorting the Image of God? By Denis R Alexander in Cambridge Papers, June 2001

Prospects for Xenotransplantation: Scientific Aspects and Ethical Considerations Pontifical Academy for Life, September 2001

Declaration on the Production and the Scientific and Therapeutic Use of the Human Embryonic Stem Cells Pontifical Academy for Life, August 24, 2000

Ordinary and Extraordinary Treatments: When Does Quality of Life Count? By Gilbert Meilaender in Theological Studies, September 1997

Bioethics and the Spiritual By Liz Hepburn in The Way, 1997

Genetic Engineering in God's World By Denis Alexander in Cambridge Papers, June 1997

Reflections on Cloning Pontifical Academy for Life, 1997

Buddhism and Medical Ethics: A Bibliographic Introduction By James J. Hughes and Damien Keown in Buddhist Journal of Ethics, 1995

Care of the Sick and Dying 1993 pastoral letter from the bishops of Maryland

Voluntary Health Risks: Who Should Pay? By Claire Andre, Manuel Velasquez, and Tim Mazur in Issues in Ethics, Fall 1993

Nutrition and Hydration: Moral and Pastoral Reflections Issued by the Committee for Pro-Life Activities of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops on April 1992

Christian Social Ethics and Health Care By Moni McIntyre in The Way, 1992

Issues in Ethics, Vol.3, No.3, Summer 1990 Articles: "Aged-Based Health Care Rationing: Challenges for an Aging Society." "AIDS, Privacy & the Community: The Ethics of Mandatory AIDS Testing and Disclosure." "System Overload: Pondering the ethics of America's health care system." IE is a publication of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University

Development of Church Teaching on Prolonging Life By Kevin D. O'Rourke, O.P., J.C.D., 1988

A Vocation to Academic Medicine By Edmond A. Murphy in The Way, 1987

Health Care Ethics A compilation of links prepared and rated by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University

Catholic Educator's Resourc: Medical Ethics Articles on different topics relating to medical ethics

The National Catholic Bioethics Center The Mission of The National Catholic Bioethics Center is to promote and safeguard the dignity of the human person through research, education, consultation, and publishing in the health and life sciences for private individuals, bishops, priests, physicians, nurses, hospital administrators, and those who shape law and public policy

The Linacre Centre The Linacre Centre exists to help Catholics understand the Church's position on many contentious questions in medical ethics. It is the only Catholic centre for bioethics in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and its Trustees are the Roman Catholic Archbishops of England and Wales

Health Care Ministry in the Twenty First Century: A Meeting Ground for Technology and Human Dignity Cornelius J. van der Poel, Holy Ghost Father, founder and former director of the pastoral ministry programs at Duquesne University and Barry University. Click on item in index

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