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Catholic Perspectives on Medical Morals

Foundational Issues

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Edmund D. Pellegrino

    1. Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, USA

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  2. John P. Langan

    1. Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University, USA

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  3. John Collins Harvey

    1. School of Medicine, Georgetown University, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 34)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Edmund D. Pellegrino, John Langan, John Collins Harvey
      Pages 1-6

  3. Prologue

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Some Basic Considerations on Moral Teaching in the Church

      • Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini
      Pages 9-19

  6. Pluralism within the Church

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. Pluralism within the Church

      • Richard A. McCormick
      Pages 147-167

    3. One Church, Plural Theologies

      • Jude P. Dougherty
      Pages 169-172

    4. Is Ethics One or Many?

      • Gerard J. Hughes
      Pages 173-196

    5. Can Ethics be Contradictory?: A Response to Gerard J. Hughes, S. J.

      • William E. May
      Pages 197-201
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CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVES AND CONTEMPORARY MEDICAL MORALS A Catholic perspective on medical morals antedates the current world­ wide interest in medical and biomedical ethics by many centuries[5]. Discussions about the moral status of the fetus, abortion, contraception, and sterilization can be found in the writings of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church. Teachings on various aspects of medical morals were scattered throughout the penitential books of the early medieval church and later in more formal treatises when moral theology became recog­ nized as a distinct discipline. Still later, medical morality was incorpor­ ated into the many pastoral works on medicine. Finally, in the contemporary period, works that strictly focus on medical ethics are produced by Catholic moral theologians who have special interests in matters medical. Moreover, this long tradition of teaching has been put into practice in the medical moral directives governing the operation of hospitals under Catholic sponsorship. Catholic hospitals were monitored by Ethics Committees long before such committees were recommended by the New Jersey Court in the Karen Ann Quinlan case or by the President's Commission in 1983 ([8, 9]). Underlying the Catholic moral tradition was the use of the casuistic method, which since the 17th and 18th centuries was employed by Catholic moralists to study and resolve concrete clinical ethical dilem­ mas. The history of casuistry is of renewed interest today when the case method has become so widely used in the current revival of interest in medical ethics[ll].

Editors and Affiliations

  • Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, USA

    Edmund D. Pellegrino

  • Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University, USA

    John P. Langan

  • School of Medicine, Georgetown University, USA

    John Collins Harvey

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Catholic Perspectives on Medical Morals

  • Book Subtitle: Foundational Issues

  • Editors: Edmund D. Pellegrino, John P. Langan, John Collins Harvey

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2538-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-55608-083-8Published: 31 March 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7647-0Published: 21 January 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2538-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0376-7418

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 310

  • Topics: Philosophy of Medicine, Religious Studies, general, Ethics, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics

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