Emergent technologies, especially in the realm of medicine, require new ethical examinations to determine their moral implications. Too often, the march of technological progress well outpaces these...
James J. Walsh’s Education of the Founding Fathers of the Republic: Scholasticism in the Colonial Colleges—A Neglected Chapter in the History of American Education (1935) is reprinted with a new...
Handbook on Critical Life Issues is a comprehensive textbook evaluating major life issues and health care ethics from the standpoint of the teaching of the Catholic Church. It is meant in a special...
Courage through Chronic Disease is an inspirational book with sound practical advice on how to live successfully with a serious chronic condition. With stirring accounts of those who have excelled...
A Biography of Jérôme Lejeune—Geneticist, Doctor, Father
by Clara Lejeune-Gaymard
Translated by Michael J. Miller
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9780935372595
Pub Date: July 25th, 2022
Format: Paperback
The father of modern genetics, Dr. Jérôme Lejeune discovered in 1959 the extra chromosome 21 responsible for the condition known as Down syndrome, which he called trisomy 21. He received many international...
The Medicalization of dying and the disregard for the life of the soul within contemporary health care prompt the return of the Ars moriendi, or The Art of Dying. This widely influential fifteenth-century...
As secular culture exerts pressure on Catholic health care to conform to its standards, there is need for a clear response to those who claim that the body is not constitutive of the person but can...
Completely updated and revised, the third edition of Catholic Health Care Ethics: A Manual for Practitioners sets the standard for Catholic bioethicists, physicians, nurses, and other health care workers....
Personalist Bioethics, the English translation of Elio Cardinal Sgreccia's Italian masterwork, advances "ontologically grounded personalism" in bioethics, that is, ethics built through reason upon...
Essays on the Foundations of Catholic Moral Theology
by Benedict Ashley
Edited by Matthew R. McWhorter
Price: $31.95
ISBN: 9780935372731
Pub Date: July 8th, 2022
Format: Paperback
The decades following the Second Vatican Council witnessed Catholic theology’s break from the classicism. Deductive, classical theology was replaced by an empirical, historically minded theology....
