CATHOLIC
BIOETHICS:
COURSE
DOCUMENTS
REQUIRED TEXTS and MAGISTERIAL DOCUMENTS
CLASS NOTES [doc; pdf]
Austriaco, P.G., Biomedicine and Beatitude [pdf; doc]
Foley, Kathleen, The Case against Assisted Suicide For the Right to End-of-Life Care [pdf]
Ford, Norman M., The Prenatal Person [pdf].
Eberl, Jason T., The Nature of Human Persons: Metaphysics and Bioethics [pdf]
Jones, David Albert, The Soul of the Embryo [pdf], An Inquiry into the Status of the Human Embryo in the Christian Tradition.
May, William, Catholic Bioethics and the Gift of Human Life, 2nd ed. [pdf].
(Univ.Notre Dame Pr, 2020) ISBN: 9780268107734
POPE PIUS XII
Address to the Congress on Histopathology of the Nervous System (1952)
Address to Anesthesiologists (1957)
POPE PAUL VI
Humanae Vitae (1968)
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life)
[Summary of Evangelium Vitae]
Salvifici Doloris (On The Christian Meaning Of Human Suffering)
Addresses on (1) The Persistent Vegetative State and (2) Palliative Care (in Class Notes]
POPE BENEDICT XVI
Organ Donation as a Form of Charity
SACRED CONGREGATION for the DOCTRINE of the FAITH
Jura et Bona (Declaration on Euthanasia);
[Summary of Jura et Bona]
Donum Vitae (On Respect for Human Life in its Origin);
Persona Humana (Declaration on Sexual Ethics);
Uterine Isolation and Related Matters.
Declaration on Procured Abortion, AAS 66 (1974).
PONTIFICAL ACADEMY of SCIENCES
Why the Concept of Brain Death is Valid as a Definition of Death
PONTIFICAL COUNCIL for JUSTICE & PEACE
Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church
U.S. CONFERENCE of CATHOLIC BISHOPS
Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship (2019)
Faithful Citizenship Ouiz (2012)
Nutrition and Hydration; Moral and Pastoral Reflections
Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, 4th Edition, [Directives only]
CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE of CATHOLIC BISHOPS
Update on Medically Assisted Nutrition and Hydration, Gerald Coleman, S.S. (Nov. 2009)
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MEDICAL and BAR ASSOCIATIONS
Withdrawing/Withholding Life-Sustaining Treatment; LACMA-LABA Guidelines for Patients Without Decision-Making Capacity Who Lack Surrogates
THE STATE of CALIFORNIA PROBATE LAW
California Probate Code on Health Care (and Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care)
[Summary of Probate Code]
POLST Legislative Intent
POLST Document
RECOMMENDED and ADDITIONAL ARTICLES
Ainsworth, High Doses of Hormones Faulted in Fertility Care, (ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome) The New York Times July 16, 2012
Amundsen, Suicide in Early Christian Tradtion, Medicine, Society, and Faith in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds , ch. 4, (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1996). pp. 70-126.
Atkinson, Gary, Theological History of Catholic Teaching on Prolonging Life, Moral Responsibility in Prolonging Life Decisions, 1981.
Audi Assembling the Global Baby, The Wall Street Journal,
Bernat, Boundaries of Organ Donation after Circulatory Death N Engl J Med, 359;7 August 14, 2008, 669-671.
Bernat,, Current Controversies in States of Chronic Unconsciousness Neurology Clinical Practice 2010;75, (Suppl.1):S33S38.
Bilefsky, Black Market for Body Parts Spreads Among the Poor in Europe The New York Times, June 28, 2012
Black, Edwin, The American Roots of Nazi Eugenics, War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race, Dialog Press, 2012.
Blackhall, Must We Always Use CPR?, N Engl J Med, Vol. 317, No. 20, 1281-1285.
Broeckaert. Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide [& Palliative Care], ch, 21, Walsh, Palliative Medicine , 1st ed. Saunders/ Elsevier, 2008
Chernoff, An Overview of Tube Feeding: From Ancient Times to the Future Nutrition in Clinical Practice, 21:408410, August 2006
Christian History, issue 101. Health Care and Hospitals in the Mission of the Church.
Cowart: [Concerning Dax Cowart:] Dax and Job (Lonnie Kliever); Sentenced to Life,(Wicker); The Testimony of Biology and Physics, (Divine).
Cronin. Conserving Human Life, PhD. Dissertation, orig, title: The Moral Law in Regard to the Ordinary and Extraordinary Means of Conserving Life. Pontif. Greg. Univ., Rome, 1958.
Delmonico. Ethical Incentives Not Payment for Organ Donation, N Engl J Med, Vol. 346, No. 25, 2002-2005.
Emanuel, Four Myths About Doctor-Assisted Suicide New York Times October 27, 2012.
Emanuel, The History of Euthanasia Debates in the United States and Britain, Annals of Internal Medicine., vol. 121, no. 10, pp. 793-802.
Emanuel, Euthanasia, Historical, Ethical, and Empiric Perspectives, Annals of Inntern Med. 1994;154:1890-1901
Faugeras, Probing Consciousness with Event-Related Potentials in the Vegetative State Neurology 2011; 77:264268
Frank-Hermann, The Effectiveness of a Fertility Awareness Based Method to Avoid Pregnancy in Relation to a Couple's Sexual Behaviour During the Fertile Time: a Prospective Longitudinal Study Human Reproduction (Oxford Univ, Press) February 20, 2007, Vol.22, No.5 pp. 13101319.
Newman, Multiple Gestations, in Gabbe, S., Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies, 6th ed.. ch. 30, (2012 Saunders, Elsevier), p. 673-705
Gillick, Reversing the Code Status of Advance Directives?, N Engl J Med 362;13 April 1, 2010, 1239-1240.
Goodwin, (book reviewed), Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts, Cambridge University Press, 2006., reeviewed in N Engl J Med 2006; 355:1183-1184, September 14, 2006
Grabowski & Naughton, [Natural Law] Catholic Social and Sexual Ethics: Inconsistent or Organic?, The Thomist: October, 1993; v.57 n.4 pp. 555-578
Gutmann, Bitter Harvest: Chinas Organ Donation Nightmare World Affairs Journal, July/August 2012
Hirschberg, The Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States: Diagnosis, Prognosis and Treatment Neurol Clin 29 (2011) 773786
Ingelfinger, Informed (but Uneducated) Consent, N Engl J Med 1972; 287:pp. 465-466
Jones, The Ethical Cell: Research Breakthrough The Tablet, 20 October 2012
Klaus, Natural Family Planning: A Review Natural Family Planning Center of Washington, D.C., inc., Bethesda, Maryland. First Edition, Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey 37: 128-150, February 1982. Second Edition, July 1995.
Lawler, The New Counterculture The Wall Street Journal, August 13, 1993.
Mattlin, Suicide by Choice? Not So Fast, The New York Times, November 1, 2012
Monti, Owen, et. al., Willful Modulation of Brain Activity in Disorders of Consciousness, N Engl J Med 362;7 February 18, 2010, 579-489
Quinn, The Gentle Darwinians, What Darwin's Champions Won't Mention
Sofair, Eugenic Sterilization and a Qualified Nazi Analogy: The United States and Germany, 1930-1945, Annals of Internal Medicine, 15 February 2000, Vol. 132 no. 4 pp. 312-319
Steinbrook. Organ Donation After Cardiac Death, N Engl J Med, Vol. 357, No. 3, 209-213.
Sykes, N. The use of opioids and sedatives at the end of life The Lancet Oncology Vol 4, May 2003.
Sykes et. al., Opioid Use at the End of Life - Three Abstracts
Truog. Consent for Organ Donation - Balancing Conflicting Ethical Obligations, N Engl J Med, 358;12 March 20, 2008, 1209-1211.
Wilson. The Practice of NFP
Zylicz (in Foley) Case Against Ass...