Primer for Health Care Ethics

Kevin O'Rourke, OP, is professor emeritus and former director of the Center for Health Care Ethics at the Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center. He is co-author of Health Care Ethics: A Theological Analysis (fourth edition, 1997), Medical Ethics: Sources of Catholic Teachings (third edition,1999) and Ethics of Health Care: An Introductory Textbook (second edition, 1994), all published by Georgetown University Press.

• Introduction 1. Principles and Core Values 2. Informed Consent: Personal and Proxy 3. Use and Removal of Life Support 4. Genetics 5. Organ Donation 6. Research 7. Suicide and Physician-Assisted Suicide 8. Managed Care 9. Artificial Generation 10. Special Questions

Mak[es] complex ethical principles and cases understandable to the medical professional and layperson alike. Health Progress