The National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC), established in 1972, conducts research, consultation, publishing and education to defend human dignity in health care and the life sciences, and carries out its work in fidelity to the natural law and the teachings of the Catholic Church. The results of these activities are available through this website and through our various educational and publishing activities, workshops, and seminars. For more information, visit http://ncbcenter.org/NetCommunity/.
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The New Charter for Health Care Workers is a revision and updating of the earlier 1995 edition, also produced by the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers. The work is divided into three major sections: “Procreating,” “Living,” and “Dying,” each of which lays out authoritative teachings in medical ethics grounded […]
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Written for a lay audience, this volume contains essays on general bioethics, reproductive technologies, rape protocols, vaccines, organ transplantation, stem cells, genetic counseling, genetic engineering, and critical end-of-life issues. The authors are leading Catholic bioethicists Erica Laethem, John Haas, Edward Furton, Marilyn Coors, and Archbishop José Gomez. Suitable for classroom […]
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Personalist Bioethics calls us to reflect on the intimate meaning of human existence and the social environment, going beyond any specific religious perspective and invoking human reason.
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By 280 pages | ISBN 978-0-935372-55-7
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Daniel A. Cronin’s survey of moral theology on the topic of ordinary and extraordinary means remains the standard reference work on this critically important distinction for end-of-life decision-making.
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By J and M 256 pages | ISBN 9780935372564
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Using abundant evidence drawn from the latest scientific research, Hanley and de Irala show that the most effective method of combating AIDS is through sexual abstinence and fidelity in marriage.
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By C 67 pages | ISBN 978-0-935372-53-3
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This small volume is designed to provoke thought about key question in modern research ethics and attempts to resolve a series of real-life cases in research ethics by applying four key principles of the moral life, namely, truth, respect for life, the integrity of persons, and the conjoined ideas of generosity and justice.
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By A, E and P 466 pages | ISBN 978-0-935372-54-0
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More than thirty authors, who are experts in their fields, examine moral action theory, key ethical principles, ethics committees, the embryo and fetus, contraception, reproductive technologies, and numerous other topics.
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This popular classroom text appears in a revised third edition with updates on nutrition and hydration, the persistent vegetative state, stem cell research, euthanasia, important court rulings, and many other topics critical to today’s health care profession.
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By E and T 362 pages | ISBN 9780935372502
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What should we do with the hundreds of thousands of frozen embryos held in fertility clinics around the world today? One solution would be adoption. Would such a course of action be moral? That is the question faced in this volume.
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By C 149 pages | ISBN 978-0-935372-59-5
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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.
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