Healthcare Ethics Bibliography
Post Date: 06/19/2010
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






