The following sources do not necessarily reflect the Center's positions or values. These sources, however, are excellent resources for familiarizing oneself with the all sides of the issue.

Allocation & Managed Care

• Callahan, Daniel. Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009.
• Camosy, Charles. Too Expensive to Treat? Finitude, Tragedy, and the Neonatal ICU. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010.
• Jecker, Nancy, and Albert Jonsen. “Managed Care: A House of Mirrors.” Journal of Clinical Ethics 8, (1997): 230–41.
• Jones, L. Gregory. “A Pathology of Medical Ethics: Economic Medical Rationing in a Morally Incoherent Society.” Linacre Quarterly 57, no. 2 (1990): 59–67.
• Kilner, John. Life on the Line: Ethics, Aging, Ending Patient’s Lives, and Allocating Vital Resources. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992.***
• Miles, Steven H., and Robert Koepp. “Comments on the AMA Report ‘Ethical Issues in Managed Care.’” Journal of Clinical Ethics 6, (1995): 306–11.
• Pellegrino, Edmund D. “Ethical Issues in Managed Care: A Catholic Christian Perspective.” Christian Bioethics 3 (1997): 55–73.***
• Rodwin, Marc A. Medicine, Money, and Morals: A Physician’s Conflict of Interest. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Case-Based Resources

• Ashcroft, Richard, Anneke Lucassen, Michael Parker, Marian Verkerk and Guy Widdershoven, eds. Case Analysis in Clinical Ethics.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
• Devettere, Raymond J. Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics: Cases and Concepts. 2^nd ed. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000.
• Diekema, Douglas S., Mark R. Mercurio, and Mary B. Adam, eds. Clinical Ethics in Pediatrics: A Case-Based Textbook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
• Freeman, John M. and Kevin McDonnell. Tough Decisions: Cases in Medical Ethics. 2^nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
• Orr, Robert D. Medical Ethics and the Faith Factor: A Handbook for Clergy and Health Care Professionals. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010.***
• Pence, Gregory E. Medical Ethics: Accounts of the Cases that Shaped and Define Medical Ethics. 5^th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2007.

General Medical Ethics

• Beauchamp, Tom L., and James F. Childress. Principles of Biomedical Ethics. 6th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
• Colt, Henri G., Silvia Quadrelli, and Lester D. Friedman. The Picture of Health: Medical Ethics and the Movies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
• Edge, Raymond S., and John Randall Groves. Ethics of Health Care: A Guide for Clinical Practice. Clifton Park, NY: Delmar Cengage Learning, 2005.
• Fletcher, John C., Edward Spencer, and Paul Lombardo, eds. Fletcher’s Introduction to Clinical Ethics, 3^rd ed. Hagerstown, MD: University Publishing Group, 2005.
• Hope, Tony. Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Jonsen, Albert R., Mark Siegler, and William J. Winslade. Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine. 7th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Medical, 2010.
• Jonsen, Albert R. A Short History of Medical Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
• Junkerman, Charles, Arthur Derse, and David Schiedermayer. Practical Ethics for Students, Interns and Residents: A Short Reference Manuel. 3^rd ed. Hagerstown, MD: University Publishing Group, 2008.
• Lo, Bernard. Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: A Guide for Clinicians. 4^th ed. Baltimore: Lippincott, 2009.
• Munson, Ronald. Intervention and Reflection: Basic Issues in Medical Ethics, 8^th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 2007
• Pellegrino, Edmund, H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., and Fabrice Jotterand, eds. The Philosophy of Medicine Reborn: A Pellegrino Reader. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 2008.
• Sugarman, Jeremy and Daniel P. Sulmasy. Methods in Medical Ethics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2001.
• Orr, Robert D., and Fred Chay. Medical Ethics: A Primer for Students; A Small-group Study for Medical and Dental Students. Bristol, TN: Paul Tournier Institute, 2000.***

Patient Autonomy and the Role of the Physician

• May, William F. The Physician's Covenant: Images of the Healer in Medical Ethics. 2nd ed. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2000.***
• Pellegrino, Edmund D., and David C. Thomasma. The Christian Virtues in Medical Practice. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1996.***
• Herbert, Phillip C. Doing Right: A Practical Guide to Ethics for Medical Trainees and Physicians. 2nd ed.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Sulmasy, Daniel P. The Healer's Calling: A Spirituality for Physicians and Other Health Care Professionals. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 1997.***
• Tauber, Alfred I. Patient Autonomy and the Ethics of Responsibility. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005.
• Thomasma, David, and Judith Lee Kissell, eds. The Health Care Professional as Friend and Healer: Building on the Work of Edmund Pellegrino. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000.

Specialty-Specific Medical Ethics

• Benner, Patricia. Christine A. Tanner, and Catherine A. Chesla. Expertise in Nursing Practice: Caring, Clinical Judgment, and Ethics. 2nd ed. New York: Springer, 2009.
• Bosek, Marcia SueDeWolf and Teresa A. Savage. The Ethical Component of Nursing Education: Integrating Ethics into Clinical Experience. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006.
• Orlowski, James P. Ethics in Critical Care Medicine.  Hagerstown, MD: University Publishing Group, 2005.
• Ross, Judith Wilson. Handbook for Hospital Ethics Committees. American Hospital Publishing, 1986.
• Shelly, Judith Allen, and Arlene B. Miller. Called to Care: A Christian Theology of Nursing. Downers Grove: IVP, 1999.***

*** Designates Christian Resource

Updated December 2011