CATHOLIC  BIOETHICS: COURSE  DOCUMENTS
 

 

 


REQUIRED TEXTS and MAGISTERIAL DOCUMENTS



CLASS NOTES [doc;  pdf]


TIMELINE of Catholic Bioethic [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


Caritas in Veritate


DICASTERY 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).


Samaritanus Bonus (End of Life Care) [pdf] .


Dignitas Infinita,  (On Human Dignity, 2024).



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)


Contraception


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, December 10, 2010.

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):S33–S38.

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, “Ethnicity and Attitudes Toward Patient Autonomy”, JAMA, Sept 18, 1995, vol. 274 no. 10, pp. 820-825

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, 21:408–410, August 2006

Christian History, issue 101. “Health Care and Hospitals in the Mission of the Church

Collier Roger, “Providing hospice in the womb”, Canadian Medical Association CMAJ, March 22, 2011, 183(5)

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; 77:264–268

Foley, “Competent Care for the Dying Instead of Physician-Assisted Suicide” N Engl J Med, Editorial, 336:54-58 January 2, 1997 

Foley, K, Hendin, H., “Physician-Assisted Suicide in Oregon: A Medical Perspective”,  Issues in Law & Medicine, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Fall, 2008)

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. 1310–1319.

Ganzini, (Abstract) “Oregonians' reasons for requesting physician aid in dying”,  Arch Intern Med - 9-Mar-2009; 169(5): 489-92

Newman, “Multiple Gestationsin 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

Grisez, G. “A Christian Ethics of Limiting Medical Treatment: Guidance for Patients, Proxy Decision Makers, and Counselors”, Pope John Paul II Lecture Series in Bioethics.

Gutmann, “Bitter Harvest: China’s ‘Organ Donation’ Nightmare” World Affairs Journal, July/August 2012

Harris, “Recognizing Conscience in Abortion Provision” N Engl J Med 367;11 September 13, 2012, 981-983.

Haward, “Care at the Edge of Viability: Medical and Ethical Issues” Clin Perinatol 38 (2011) 471–492.

Heide, “End-of-Life Practices in the Netherlands under the Euthanasia Act” N. Engl J Med 356;19  May 10, 2007, 1957-1965

Hirschberg, “The Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States: Diagnosis, Prognosis and Treatment” Neurol Clin 29 (2011) 773–786

Ingelfinger, “Informed (but Uneducated) Consent”, N Engl J Med 1972; 287:pp. 465-466

Jansen & Sulmasy, “Sedation, Alimentation,  Hydration, and Equivocation: Careful Conversation about Care at the End of Life,” Ann Intern Med. 2002;136:845-849.

Jones, “The Ethical Cell: Research Breakthrough” The Tablet, 20 October 2012

Kevles,  In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity (New York, Knopf, 1985), Ch. 5-7, pp. 85-128

Kalra, et. al. [Abstracts on and including:] “The association of in vitro fertilization and perinatal morbidity”. Reprod Med - 01-Sep-2008; 26(5): 423-35

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.

Ko, “Ethical Issues in Palliative Care” (palliative sedation). Clinics in Primary Care (Prim Care Clin Office Pract 38 (2011) 183–193)

Lawler, “The New Counterculture” The Wall Street Journal, August 13, 1993.

Lawrence, “Deciding for Others: Limitations of Advance Directives, Substituted Judgment, and Best Interest” Virtual Mentor American Medical Association Journal of Ethics August 2009, Volume 11, Number 8: 571-581.

Lewis & Bernat, ed.s, Death Determination by Neurologic Criteria, Areas of Consensus and Controversy, ser. Advances in Neuroethics (Springer, 2022), ISBN 978-3-031-15946-6

MacLeod, “Assisted or Hastened Death: The Healthcare Practitioner’s Dilemma” Global Journal of Health Science; Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education, Vol. 4, No. 6; 2012.

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

Prokopetz, & Soleymani-Lehmann “Redefining Physicians’ Role in Assisted Dying” N Engl J Med Perspective 2012; 367:97-99 July 12, 2012,

Quill, “Legal Regulation of Physician-Assisted Death —The Latest Report Cards”, N Engl J Med 356;19 May 10, 2007

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.

Weeks, “Patients’ Expectations about Effects of Chemotherapy for Advanced Cancer”, N Engl J Med 2012; 367:1616-1625

 


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