The Roman Catholic Church has had a significant impact upon the formulation and
application of bioethical values and principles. As the discipline of bioethics has evolved …

Roman Catholic reflection on bioethical topics comprises a vast array of teachings, debates,
and publications. This reflection embraces virtually all the topics of bioethics. It emerges from …

Can the Hippocratic and Judeo-Christian traditions be synthesized with contemporary
thought about practical reason, virtue and community to provide real-life answers to the …

Theorists who have not appropriated the teaching of the 1993 encyclical letter Veritatis
splendor continue to affect adversely important initiatives aimed at the renewal of Catholic …

The author argues that the the promise of secular bioethics—moral guidance untethered to
any philosophical anthropology—is impossible to sustain. His point of departure is the work …

Jr. identifies three stages that Roman Catholic bioethics has gone or is going through. 1 The
first is the moral manual stage: in this stage, Catholic bioethicists worked within a tightly …

THERE IS A LONG TRADITION OF BIOETHICAL REASONING within the Roman Catholic
faith, a tradition expressed in scripture, the writings of the Doctors of the Church, papal …

There is little doubt that there are deep divisions among the various religious communities in
the United States and most of the English-speaking world on what are usually referred to as …

Contemporary Issues in Bioethics: A Catholic Perspective applies the best of the Roman
Catholic theological and ethical tradition to some of the most controversial and complex …

Bioethics emerged to fill the moral vacuum in health care policy created by (1) a deflation of
medicine as a guild with the consequent marginalization of professional medical ethics and …