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CL237 Catholic Medical Ethics
Fernandes
Spring 2010
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Syllabus
Week 1: Introduction; Philosophy of Medicine;
Catholic Healthcare
Readings:
Virdis, Andrea "Is
It Possible to Define the Nature of Medicine." Medicina e Morale
2008 no.4: 773-785.
Pellegrino, Edmund. "Catholic Healthcare
Ministry and Contemporary Culture: The Growing Divide." In Urged on by
Christ, Proceedings of the 21st Workshop for Bishops, 13-30.
Philadelphia: National Catholic Bioethics Center, 2007.
Week 2: History of Bioethics and Ethical
Theories
Guinan, Patrick. "Autonomy
has not killed Hippocrates." National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly
9, no.4 (Winter 2009): 681-688.
Week 3: Assisted Reproduction Technologies
and Dignitas Personae
Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith.
"Instruction Dignitas Personae On Certain Bioethical Questions"
http://www.pcf.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20081208_dignitas-personae_en.html
Brugger, E. Christian., ed., "Symposium on
Dignitas Personae." National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly
9, no.3 (Autumn 2009): 461-483.
Week 4: Human Dignity and Embryo Adoption
Haas, John. "Human Dignity and Health Care."
Ethics and Medics 22 no.2 (February 1997):[1-2]
Week 5: Rape Protocols/Morning After Pill;
Confidentiality and the Principle of Informed Consent
Hilliard, Marie. "Dignitas Personae and
Emergency Contraception." Ethics and Medics 34 no.2 (February 2009):3-4.
Alvare, Helen. "The Prevention of Pregnancy
After Sexual Assault." In Urged on by Christ, Proceedings of the 21st
Workshop for Bishops, 143-157. Philadelphia: National Catholic Bioethics
Center, 2007.
Nelson, Leonard J. "Emergency Contraception
Laws." In Diagnosis Critical, 163-173. Huntington, Indiana: Our
Sunday Visitor, 2009.
Cavagnaro, Charles. "Confidentiality and Truth
Telling" Ethics and Medics 20 no.2 (July 1995): 1-3.
Week 6: Organ Transplantation, Principle
of Totality; Death (Brain Death, PVS, Coma)
Haas, John. "The Totality and Integrity of
the Body."
Ethics and Medics 20 no.2 (February 1995):1-3.
May, William E. "Defining Death and Organ
Transplantation." In Catholic Bioethics and the Gift of Human Life,
2nd ed., 315-360. Huntington: Our Sunday Visitor, 2008.
Week 7: Assisted Nutrition and Hydration;
Ordinary and Extraordinary Treatment
Smith, Russell. "Ordinary and Extraordinary
Means." Ethics and Medics 20 no.4 (April 1995):1-2.
Guevin, Benedict. "Ordinary, Extraordinary, and
Artificial Means of Care." National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 5
no.3 (Autumn 2005): 471-479.
Henke, Donald. "History of Ordinary and
Extraordinary Means." National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 5 no.3
(Autumn 2005): 555-575.
John Paul II, Pope. "Allocution to the International
Congress on "Life Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State: Scientific
Advances and Ethical Dilemmas. March 20, 2004; available at:
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/2004/march/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_20040320_congress-fiamc_en.html
Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith. “Responses
to Certain Questions of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
regarding Artificial Nutrition and Hydration.” August 1, 2007.
Sanders, Alan. "The Clinical Reality of
Artificial Nutrition and Hydration for Patients at the End of LIfe." National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly
9 no.2 (Summer 2009): 293-304.
Howland, John. "A
Defense of Nutrition and Hydration in Patients with Dementia." National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly
9 no.4 (Winter 2009): 697-710.
Week 8: Euthanasia and Physician Assisted
Suicide; the Principle of Double Effect
Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith. Declaration on Euthanasia (5 May 1980);
available at:
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19800505_euthanasia_en.html
Cataldo, Peter. "Principle of Double Effect." Ethics and Medics
20 no.3 (March 1995):1-3.
Kaczor, Christopher. "Double Effect Reasoning
from Jean Pierre Gury to Peter Knauer." Theological Studies (1998):
98-108.
Week 9: Suffering; Conscience (Personnel and
Catholic institutions)
Pellegrino, Edmund. "The Moral Status of
Compassion." Ethics and Medics 20 no.9 (September 1995):3-4.
"Avoiding Formal Cooperation in Health Care
Alliances." In Ethical Principle in Catholic Health Care: Selections from
25 years of Ethich and Medics." Edited by Edward James Furton, 139-146.
Boston: National Catholic Bioethics Center, 1999.
Smith, Russell. "
Formal and Material Cooperation." Ethics and Medics 20 no.6 (June 1995):1-2.
Orr, Robert D. "Medical
Ethics and the Faith Factor: The Engendered Right of Conscience."
Ethics and Medicine 26, no.1 (Spring 2010): 49-53.
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