Medicine, Health Care, & Ethics: Catholic Voices

Contributors

Contributors Benedict Ashley, O.P., is emeritus professor of moral theology at Aquinas Institute of Theology. He received the medal Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice from Pope John Paul II. He is co-author with Kevin O’Rourke, O.P., of Health Care Ethics: A Catholic Theological Approach, and the author of numerous other books including Living the Truth in Love: A Biblical Introduction to Moral Theology and Theologies of the Body: Humanist and Christian. Gregory R. Beabout is associate professor of philosophy at Saint Louis University. His research and teaching are in the areas of ethics and social philosophy , and he has particular interest in personalism and Catholic social thought, as well as the writings of Kierkegaard and Pope John Paul II. John Berkman is associate professor of philosophy and theology at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology/Graduate Theological Union. He is editor of The Hauerwas Reader and The Pinckaers Reader. He writes and lectures extensively on moral theology and medical ethics, especially on end-oflife issues in the Catholic tradition. Clarke E. Cochran is a professor of political science and an adjunct professor in the Department of Health Organization Management at Texas Tech University. He is the author of several books and numerous articles and reviews. His most recent book, written with David Carroll Cochran, is Catholics, Politics, and Public Policy: Beyond Left and Right. Catherine Green teaches philosophy at Rockhurst University and lectures in the nursing schools at the University of Kansas and the Research College of Nursing. She has published essays in political philosophy, the philosophy of knowledge, and ethics. Her current area of research is the philosophy of nursing. 357 John Kavanaugh, S.J., is a professor of philosophy and director of Ethics across the Curriculum at Saint Louis University. He is the “Ethics Notebook” columnist for America magazine. His most recent book is Who Count as Persons ? Human Identity and the Ethics of Killing. William E. May is Michael J. McGivney Professor of Moral Theology at the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at the Catholic University of America. He is author of more than a dozen books, including An Introduction to Moral Theology, Marriage: The Rock on Which the Family Is Built, and, most recently, Catholic Bioethics and the Gift of Human Life. John F. Morris is an associate professor of philosophy at Rockhurst University . His specialty is contemporary medical/bioethics. He has published a number of articles on ethics and medical ethics, including “Is It Possible to Be Ethical ?” in OT Practice, and “Cloning and Human Dignity” in Ethics & Medics. Michael D. Place, a priest of the archdiocese of Chicago, is vice president for ministry development for Resurrection Health Care. He is chair of the International Federation of Catholic Health Care Institutions and from 1998 to 2005 was president of the Catholic Health Association of the United States. Kevin D. O’Rourke. O.P., is the founder of the Center for Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University and professor of bioethics at the Neiswanger Institute of Bioethics and Public Policy, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University , in Chicago. He has written several articles and books on bioethics and is co-author with Benedict Ashley, O.P., of Health Care Ethics: A Theological Analysis , now in the 5th edition. Jeanne Heffernan Schindler is a member of the Department of Humanities and Augustinian Traditions at Villanova University and an affiliate professor in the Villanova Law School. Her primary research field is political theory. She has lectured and published articles on Christian political thought, democratic theory, and faith and learning. Brendan Sweetman is a professor of philosophy at Rockhurst University . He is author or editor of many books, as well as author of more than fifty articles and reviews. His most recent books are Why Politics Needs Religion: The Place of Religious Arguments in the Public Square and, edited with Curtis Hancock , Faith and the Life of the Intellect. 358 contributors ...