Published May, 2013
By Virginia Gray, David Lowery and Jennifer K. Benz
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
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Universal health care was on the national political agenda for nearly a hundred years until a comprehensive health care reform bill supported by President Obama passed in 2010. This title assesses the impact of interest groups to determine if they are capable of shaping policy in their own interests or whether they influence policy at the margins.

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Published April, 2013
By David F. Kelly, Henk ten Have and Gerard Magill
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This is a comprehensive textbook in Catholic medical ethics that integrates theology and methodology into a detailed examination of bioethical issues of interest to scholars, practitioners, and students.

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Published October, 2012
By Robert M. Veatch
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Where should physicians get their ethics? While the Hippocratic Oath continues to be cited by a wide array of professional associations, scholars, and medical students, the author contends that the pledge is such an offensive code of ethics that it should be summarily excised from the profession.

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Published September, 2012
By Frank J. Thompson
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Medicaid, one of the largest federal programs in United States, gives grants to states to provide health insurance for over 60 million low-income Americans. This title examines the program's evolution during the presidential administrations of Bill Clinton, George W Bush, and Barack Obama and its pivotal role in the epic health reform law of 2010.

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Published September, 2011
By Ronald Cole-Turner, Ted Peters, Karen Lebacqz, Michael S. Burdett, David Grumett, Stephen Garner, J. Jeanine Thweatt-Bates, Celia Deane-Drummond and Todd T.W. Daly
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The timeless human desire to be more beautiful, intelligent, healthy, athletic, or young has given rise in our time to technologies of human enhancement. The author has joined seasoned scholars and younger, emerging voices together to bring fresh insight into the technologies that are already reshaping the future of Christian life and hope.

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Published April, 2011
By Kevin D. O'Rourke and Philip J. Boyle
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Examines specific teachings of the Church on over seventy issues in clinical and research ethics, including abortion, AIDS, artificial insemination, assisted suicide, cloning, contraception, euthanasia, gene therapy, health care reform, organ donation and transplantation, organizational ethics, stem cells, and, surrogate motherhood.

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Published November, 2010
By Norman L. Cantor
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What will become of our earthly remains? What happens to our bodies during and after the various forms of cadaver disposal available? Who controls the fate of human remains? What legal and moral constraints apply? The author provides a graphic, informative, and entertaining exploration of these questions.

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Published October, 2010
By Tom L. Beauchamp, Ruth Faden, David DeGrazia, Daniel P. Sulmasy, Jeremy Sugarman, Alison Boyce and Diego Gracia
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Medical ethics draws upon methods from a wide array of disciplines, including anthropology, economics, epidemiology, health services research, history, law, medicine, and theology. In this book, scholars in medical ethics bring these many methods together in one place to be systematically described, critiqued, and challenged.

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Published August, 2010
By Kevin D. O'Rourke and Jean de Blois
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From Harry and Louise through the McCaughey septuplets, this book explains stories and issues in health care ethics that have appeared in the news media. It outlines and applies principles of justice from the Catholic tradition to contemporary problems that increasingly affect us.

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Published February, 2010
By David L. Weimer
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Governments throughout the industrialized world make decisions that fundamentally affect the quality and accessibility of medical care. This title explores an alternative regulatory approach to medical care based on the delegation of decisions about the allocation of scarce medical resources to private nonprofit organizations.

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