Healthcare Ethics Bibliography

 

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.

  • Ashley, Benedict M., and Kevin D. O'Rourke. Ethics of Health Care: An Introductory Textbook. 3rd ed. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2002.
  • Ashley, Benedict M., Jean De Blois, and Kevin D. O'Rourke. Health Care Ethics: A Catholic Theological Analysis. 5th ed. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2007.***
  • Barr, Donald A. Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethinicity, and Health. Baltimore, MA: John Hopkins University Press, 2008.
  • ­­­­____________. Introduction to U.S. Health Policy: The Organization, Financing, and Delivery of Health Care in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
  • Bouchard, Charles E. “Healthcare Reform’s Moral, Spiritual Issues: The Problems Are Not Just Political.” Health Progress 77, no. 3 (1996): 54–60.
  • Cribb, Alan. Health and the Good Society: Setting Healtcare Ethics in Social Context. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
  • Devettere, Raymond J. Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics: Cases and Concepts. 3rd ed. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2009.
  • Furrow, Barry R., Thomas L. Greaney, Sandra H. Johnson, Timothy S. Jost, and Robert L. Schwartz. Bioethics: Health Care Law and Ethics. Fourth ed. St. Paul, MN: West Group, 2001
  • Garrett, Thomas M., Harold W. Baillie, and Rosellen M. Garrett. Health Care Ethics: Principles and Problems. 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000.
  • Gill, Robin. Health Care and Christian Ethics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.***
  • Hamel, Ron, ed. Making Health Care Decisions: A Catholic Guide. Liguori, MO: Liguori, 2006.
  • Illingworth, Patricia, and Wendy Parmet. Ethical Health Care. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2005.
  • Kelly, David F. Contemporary Catholic Health Care Ethics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2004.***
  • Kilner, John F. “The Ethical Legitimacy of Excluding the Elderly When Medical Resources Are Limited.” In Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics, edited by Diane Yeagar, 179-203. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1988. ***
  • Kilner, John F., Robert D. Orr, and Judith Allen Shelly, eds. The Changing Face of Health Care: A Christian Appraisal of Managed Care, Resource Allocation, and Patient-caregiver Relationships. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.***
  • Lynch, Holly Fernandez. Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care: An Institutional Compromise. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008.
  • Morreim, E. Haavi. Balancing Act: The New Medical Ethics of Medicine's New Economics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1995.
  • Morrison, Eileen E. Health Care Ethics: Critical Issues for the 21st Century. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett, 2008.
  • Panicola, Michael R., John Paul Slosar, Mark F. Repenshek, and David M. Belde.  An Introduction to Health Care Ethics: Theological Foundations, Contemporary Issues, and Controversial Cases. Winona, MN: St. Mary's, 2007.
  • Post, Linda Farber, Jeffrey Blustein, and Nancy Neveloff Dubler. Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
  • Smith, Russell E. “Health Care Rationing: A Theologian’s Perspective.” Linacre Quarterly 60, no. 3 (1993): 20–29.***
  • Thompson, Andrew, and Norman J. Temple. Ethics, Medical Research, and Medicine: Commercialism versus Environmentalism and Social Justice. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2001.
  • Uustal, Diann B. Clinical Ethics and Values: Issues and Insights in a Changing Healthcare Environment. 2nd ed. Jamestown, RI: Educational Resources in HealthCare, 1993.
  • Watt, Helen. Life and Death in Healthcare Ethics: A Short Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2000.

 

Out of Print

  • Hinderer, Drew, and Sara Hinderer. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Health Care Ethics. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.

***Christian Resource

Updated June 2010