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Healthcare & Clinical 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.

The Global Outcomes Movement: Is it Compatible with Medicine?

Author: 
Michael Brooks, MD

Over the last twenty years, the so-called outcomes movement has come to dominate the health-care industry in all developed and many developing countries. The outcomes movement refers broadly to an approach which focuses on health-care or educational outcomes—outcomes which are measurable endpoints, and which can be evaluated in aggregate, using statistics. The healing process itself is viewed as a black box, containing too many variables for explanation and analysis. What is of interest are measurable inputs and outputs only.
Length: 22:40

Professionalism in Peril

Author: 
Gene Rudd, MD

Plenary Address from CBHD's 15th Annual Conference: Healthcare and the Common Good.


Length: 57:45

Healthcare: A Cultural Diagnosis

Author: 
Peter Lawler, PhD

Plenary Address from CBHD's 15th Annual Conference: Healthcare and the Common Good.
 


Length: 34:49

Healthcare in the United States: Strengths, Weaknesses & the Way Forward

Author: 
James C. Capretta

Plenary Address from CBHD's 15th Annual Conference: Healthcare and the Common Good.


Length: 67:52

Healthcare and the Common Good

Author: 
Edmund Pellegrino, MD

Plenary Address from CBHD's 15th Annual Conference: Healthcare and the Common Good.


Length: 51:56

What Has Healthcare Reform Got to Do with Ice Floes? The Déjà Vu of Rationing, the Elderly, and Social Valuation

Author: 
Gregory W. Rutecki, MD

For those whose worldview picture is framed by biblical anthropology, the recent tenor of the healthcare reform debate should come as no surprise. When Americans have been forced to ration healthcare in the past—e.g., the early dialysis era, organ transplantation—social valuation explicitly and implicitly crept into decision-making.[1] Unfortunately, contemporary discussion, once again, is openly engaging the same wrong-headed direction.


Length: 6:27

Do no harm?

Author: 
Gregory W. Rutecki, MD

One Christian-Hippocratic position pertaining to the essentials of ethical medical practice has been unequivocal. There should be total separation between “black and white” medicine as described through the pregnant admonition: “do no harm.” Originally, the “black” side of medicine could be summarized neatly by two activities proscribed within the body of the Hippocratic Oath itself, abortion and euthanasia (or assisted suicide).


Length: 7:45

Healthcare and Clinical Ethics Annotated Bibliography

 The following annotated 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.

Beauchamp, Tom L., and James F. Childress. Principles of Biomedical Ethics. 6th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Healthcare and the Common Good

Author: 
C. Ben Mitchell, PhD

The U.S. healthcare system is at once the envy of the world and in very deep trouble. Some resist the word “crisis” to describe our situation, suggesting that the diagnosis is too cynical. Others, like the Hudson Institute, have predicted that the impact of Boomers on the healthcare system will lead to the collapse of employer-provided healthcare (see William Styring and Donald Jonas, Health Care 2020: The Coming Collapse of Employer-Provided Health Care).


Length: 7:55