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Ethics Booklist

 

CARE IN A CONFUSED CLIMATE. PASTORAL CARE AND POSTMODERN CULTURE
Paul Goodliff
Darton L&T/98. ISBN 0-232-52281-2.

CAUSING DEATH & SAVING LIVES
Jonathan Glover
Penguin/Jun 90. ISBN 0-14-013479-4.

ETHICS IN PASTORAL MINISTRY
Richard M Gula
Paulist Press/Mar 96. ISBN 0-8091-3620-1.
Richard M. Gula examining the sensitive pastoral issues of power, sexuality, and confidentiality. The book is sure to find an appreciative welcome as a text in both university-based and diocesan-sponsored ministry training programs.

EUTHANASIA, CLINICAL PRACTICE & THE LAW
Ed. Luke Gormally
Linacre Centre/Jan 94. ISBN 0-906561-08-6
A detailed resource book on the history of the thinking on this complex subject. Some of the conclusions are open to further discussion.

HEALTHY RESPECT: ETHICS IN HEALTH CARE
R.S. Downie & K.C. Calman
OUP/May 94. ISBN 0-19-262408-3.
The book offers an introduction to the moral concepts and value of health care. It is written by a moral philosopher, a doctor and a nurse and contains questions, cases and exercises which are suitable for medical, nursing and all students and commentators on health care. Moral dilemmas include consent, confidentiality, the giving or withholding of information, and the economics of health care. The issues of artificial reproduction, terminal care and the research and testing of drugs are addressed.

MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH. TODAY’S HEALTHCARE DILEMMAS IN THE LIGHT OF CHRISTIAN FAITH
John Wyatt
Inter-Varsity/98. ISBN 0-85111-588-8.

MEDICAL ETHICS
Alistair Campbell, Frank Gillett & Gareth Jones
OUP/Dec 01. ISBN 0-19-558445-7. 3rd Edition
Non-technical guide for medical students and practitioners. Incorporates new chapters on organ transplantation, and innovative and unorthodox treatments. Features sections on autopsies, brain death, cloning, and the human genome project. Deals with ethical foundations, clinical ethics, and medicine and society. Good basic short introduction worth a cover-to-cover read to get the general feel of the subject.

MEDICINE, PATIENTS & THE LAW
Margaret Brazier
Penguin/Jun 99. ISBN 0-14-012749-6.

NURSING ETHICS
Ian E. Thompson, Kath M. Melia, Kenneth M. Boyd
Churchill Livingstone/Noc 97. ISBN 0-443-04811-8.

PATHWAYS IN MEDICAL ETHICS
A G Johnson
E. Arnold/Aug 90. ISBN 0-340-50720-9.

PRACTICAL ETHICS
Peter Singer
Cambridge UP/Mar 93. ISBN 0-521-43971-X.
Good cross-section of information. Use index for main subject headings, cross-reference subjects in each book, then think out your own position.

PRINCIPLES OF BIOMEDICAL ETHICS
Tom Beauchamp & James Childress
OUP/Jul 94. ISBN 0-19-508537-X.
A full and detailed study of most of the main issues. Careful use of the index and reading by subject and sections, perhaps the most useful method of absorbing this book.

RELIGIOUS ETHICS & PASTORAL CARE
Don S. Browning
Fortress Publications/Mar 84. ISBN 0-8006-1725-8.This is one of a series of books published by American pastoral theologians as a kind of reaction to pastoral care simply seen as counselling. Browning offers a method to encourage theologians and the whole church community to be involved in moral enquiry.

THE MORAL MAZE: A WAY OF EXPLORING CHRISTIAN ETHICS
David E. Cook
Abingdon Press/Sep 00. ISBN 0281040389

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