Allocating Scarce Medical Resources: Roman Catholic Perspectives.

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Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2002; 800-537-5487; 410-516-6998 (fax).

The essays that make up this book grew out of papers that were written and rewritten during and after a series of meetings involving a small working group of theologians, philosophers, and physicians between August 1997 and May 1999. Out of the conversations sustained at these meetings, the major papers were rewritten, recast, and refocused four times. The result are these reflections on Roman Catholic moral...