A Catholic Guide to Medical Ethics.

Diamond, Eugene F. A Catholic Guide to Medical Ethics. Palos Park, Illinois: The Linacre Institute, 2001.

This book is a compilation of articles addressing some fifty matters of concern from a Catholic perspective. In many cases, they are the product of long discussion, debate and finally consensus within the Catholic Medical Association. The CMA has seen the need for a clinically based ethical voice that can combine the rich Hippocratic overview with the added dimension of papal pronouncements.

The author has forty-five years of experience as a Catholic physician applying Catholic principles in clinical practice. He also references hundreds of other experts in the medical field, as well as many priest-theologians. Dr. Diamond is past president of the CMA. He was chosen Pediatrician of the Year in Illinois in 1980, and in 2000 the prestigious American Academy of Pediatrics chose...