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Medico-Moral Problems

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Based on a series of 5 booklets entitled Medico-moral problems issued by the Catholic Hospital Association, 1949-1955

Includes bibliography


Fr. Chad Rippinger, FSSP, reccomends medical ethics books from the '40s and '50s, and this one is also recommended in Fr. Benedict Ashley, O.P.'s Health Care Ethics (2007; pg. 9).

This is quite a good Catholic medical ethics book, as it even quotes from Humani Generis!

PDF pp. 121ff. are on "abdominal pregnancies" (ectopic pregnancies), and pp. 216ff. are on hysterectomies.

pp. 21ff. are on the principle of double-effect