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.

Healthcare and Clinical Ethics

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• 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.
• Beauchamp, Tom L., and James F. Childress. Principles of Biomedical Ethics. 6th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
• Benner, Patricia. Christine A. Tanner, and Catherine A. Chesla. Expertise in Nursing Practice: Caring, Clinical Judgment, and Ethics. 2nd ed. New York: Springer, 2009.
• Bouchard, Charles E. “Healthcare Reform’s Moral, Spiritual Issues: The Problems Are Not Just Political.” Health Progress 77, no. 3 (1996): 54–60.
• Bouma, Hessel, Douglas Diekema, Edward Langerak, Theodore Rottman, and Allen Verhey.  Christian Faith, Health and Medical Practice. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989.
• Cameron, Nigel M. de S. The New Medicine: Life and Death after Hippocrates. 2nd ed. Chicago: Bioethics, 2001.
• Davis, John Jefferson. Evangelical Ethics: Issues Facing the Church Today. 3rd ed. Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed, 2004.
• Detels, Roger, Robert Beaglehole, Mary Ann Lansang, and Martin Gulliford, eds. Oxford Textbook of Public Health. 5th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Devettere, Raymond J. Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics: Cases and Concepts. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000.
• Edge, Raymond S., and John Randall Groves. Ethics of Health Care: A Guide for Clinical Practice. Clifton Park, NY: Delmar Cengage Learning, 2005.
• Garrett, Thomas M., Harold W. Baillie, and Rosellen M. Garrett. Health Care Ethics: Principles and Problems. 4th Edition. 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.
• Hinderer, Drew, and Sara Hinderer. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Health Care Ethics. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.
• Illingworth, Patricia, and Wendy Parmet. Ethical Health Care. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2005.
• 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.
• Jonsen, Albert R., Mark Siegler, and William J. Winslade. Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine. 6th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Medical, 2006.
• 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.
• May, William F. The Physician's Covenant: Images of the Healer in Medical Ethics. 2nd ed. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2000.
• Miles, Steven H., and Robert Koepp. “Comments on the AMA Report ‘Ethical Issues in Managed Care.’” Journal of Clinical Ethics 6, (1995): 306–11.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Pellegrino, Edmund D. “Ethical Issues in Managed Care: A Catholic Christian Perspective.” Christian Bioethics 3 (1997): 55–73.
• Pellegrino, Edmund D., and David C. Thomasma. The Christian Virtues in Medical Practice. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1996.
• Post, Linda Farber, Jeffrey Blustein, and Nancy Neveloff Dubler. Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
• Rodwin, Marc A. Medicine, Money, and Morals. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
• Shelly, Judith Allen, and Arlene B. Miller. Called to Care: A Christian Theology of Nursing. Downers Grove: IVP, 1999.
• Smith, Russell E. “Health Care Rationing: A Theologian’s Perspective.” Linacre Quarterly 60, no. 3 (1993): 20–29.
• Smith, Wesley J. Consumer’s Guide to a Brave New World. San Francisco: Encounter, 2004.
• Stevens, David, and Gregg Lewis. Jesus, M.D.: A Doctor Examines the Great Physician. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2001.
• Sulmasy, Daniel P. The Healer's Calling: A Spirituality for Physicians and Other Health Care Professionals. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 1997.
• 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.
• 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.

Updated March 2009