St. Augustine's Press
completely sure. Its subject matter is too weighty for a newsletter, but its size is too small for a journal. Whatever it is, Ethics & Medics has been serving the Catholic intellectual community for close to 35 years. This selection of essays from its pages contains some of the most important essays from the first 25 years of its publication. The theme of the volume is the idea of “principle”; hence, the topics addressed focus on guiding principles of enduring value that have long marked the Catholic health care tradition.
The contributors are among the finest in the Catholic intellectual tradition. They
include John Haas, Edmund Pellegrino, William E. May, Joseph Boyle, Russell Hittinger, Rev. Servais Pinckaers, O.P., Ralph McInerny, Peter Kreeft, Janet Smith, Daniel O’Brien, Rev. Albert Moraczewski, O.P., Rev. Russell Smith, Stephen M. Krason, and many, many others. Each author addresses a specific element of moral concern to the Catholic health care tradition. Subjects include human dignity, compassion, conscience, natural law, virtue, suffering, proportionalism, double effect, confidentiality, and collaborative health care arrangements.
Like Ethics & Medics, every essay in this volume is short and to the point. The text is
easy to read and succinct. Over the years, thousands and thousands of readers have
benefited from on point analysis of this long-lived publication on moral issues in
medicine and the life sciences. Ethical Principle is Catholic Health Care will serve as a fine introduction to the field of Catholic medical ethics.
Health Care
174 pages, 6” x 9”, paperbound, 2005,
$19.95
ISBN-13: 978-0-935372-42-7;
ISBN-10: 0-935372-42-3
preface, index
publication date: January 2009