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CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVES AND CONTEMPORARY MEDICAL MORALS A Catholic
perspective on medical morals antedates the current world wide
interest in medical and biomedical ethics by many centuries 5].
Discussions about the moral status of the fetus, abortion,
contraception, and sterilization can be found in the writings of
the Fathers and Doctors of the Church. Teachings on various aspects
of medical morals were scattered throughout the penitential books
of the early medieval church and later in more formal treatises
when moral theology became recog nized as a distinct discipline.
Still later, medical morality was incorpor ated into the many
pastoral works on medicine. Finally, in the contemporary period,
works that strictly focus on medical ethics are produced by
Catholic moral theologians who have special interests in matters
medical. Moreover, this long tradition of teaching has been put
into practice in the medical moral directives governing the
operation of hospitals under Catholic sponsorship. Catholic
hospitals were monitored by Ethics Committees long before such
committees were recommended by the New Jersey Court in the Karen
Ann Quinlan case or by the President's Commission in 1983 ( 8, 9]).
Underlying the Catholic moral tradition was the use of the
casuistic method, which since the 17th and 18th centuries was
employed by Catholic moralists to study and resolve concrete
clinical ethical dilem mas. The history of casuistry is of renewed
interest today when the case method has become so widely used in
the current revival of interest in medical ethics ll]."
CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVES AND CONTEMPORARY MEDICAL MORALS A Catholic
perspective on medical morals antedates the current world wide
interest in medical and biomedical ethics by many centuries 5].
Discussions about the moral status of the fetus, abortion,
contraception, and sterilization can be found in the writings of
the Fathers and Doctors of the Church. Teachings on various aspects
of medical morals were scattered throughout the penitential books
of the early medieval church and later in more formal treatises
when moral theology became recog nized as a distinct discipline.
Still later, medical morality was incorpor ated into the many
pastoral works on medicine. Finally, in the contemporary period,
works that strictly focus on medical ethics are produced by
Catholic moral theologians who have special interests in matters
medical. Moreover, this long tradition of teaching has been put
into practice in the medical moral directives governing the
operation of hospitals under Catholic sponsorship. Catholic
hospitals were monitored by Ethics Committees long before such
committees were recommended by the New Jersey Court in the Karen
Ann Quinlan case or by the President's Commission in 1983 ( 8, 9]).
Underlying the Catholic moral tradition was the use of the
casuistic method, which since the 17th and 18th centuries was
employed by Catholic moralists to study and resolve concrete
clinical ethical dilem mas. The history of casuistry is of renewed
interest today when the case method has become so widely used in
the current revival of interest in medical ethics ll]."
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