Contemporary Catholic health care ethics

Religion and health care

The dignity of human life

The integrity of the human person

The implications for health care

Theological principles in health care ethics

The levels and questions of ethics

Freedom and the moral agent

Right and wrong

Metaethics

Method in Catholic medical ethics

Catholic method and birth control

The principle of double effect

Forgoing treatment, pillar one: ordinary and extraordinary means

Forgoing treatment, pillar two: killing and allowing to die

Forgoing treatment, pillar three: decisions by competent patients

Forgoing treatment, pillar three: decisions for incompetent patients

Forgoing treatment, pillar three: advance directives

Hydration and nutrition

Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia

Medical futility

Pain and pain management

Ethics committees

Research ethics

Organizational ethics

Embryonic stem cells and the beginning of personhood

Genetic engineering: ethics and anthropology

Specific issues in genetics

Allocating health care resources

The use and misuse of the allocation argument

Global bioethics.