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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