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.
Contemporary Catholic health care ethics by David F. Kelly. ISBN 9781589019607. Published by Georgetown University Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.