HCEUSA Subject Index

SUBJECT ISSUE
Advance Directives
  The Texas Advance Directive Act: A Threat to Catholic Identity?   Spring 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 2
  A Boost for Advance Directives   Spring 2010 — Vol. 18, No. 2
  National Healthcare Decision Day is April 16   Winter 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 1
  A Select Bibliography: Advance Health Care Directives   Winter 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 1
Allocation of Resources
  On Charlie Gard   Summer 2017 — Vol. 25, No. 3
  Caring for Patients with a History of Illicit Intravenous Drug Use: Ethical Obligations from Bedside to Boardroom   Winter 2017 — Vol 25, No 1
Aneuploidybe
  Screening for Aneuploidy: A Complex Ethical Issue   Spring 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 2
Anti-Microbial Resistance
  Ethics and Anti-Microbial Resistance   Summer 2017 — Vol. 25 No. 3
Artificial Nutrition and Hydration
  Feeding Tubes in Advanced Dementia and Ischemic Stroke   Winter 2016 – Vol 24, No 1
  Key Clinical Considerations on Tube Feeding for Guiding Policy and Decision Makers in Catholic Health Care   Spring 2009 — Vol. 17, No. 2
  Promoting Human Dignity Through Tube Feeding: Finding the Mean   Spring 2009 — Vol. 17, No. 2
  Advance Directives and ANH   Summer 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 3
  National Healthcare Decision Day is April 16   Winter 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 1
  The CDF Statement on Artificial Nutrition and Hydration: What Should We Make of It?   Fall 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 4
  A Primer for Understanding the CDF's Responses Regarding AANH for the PVS Patient   Fall 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 4
  Sampling of Responses to the CDF Statement on Nutrition and Hydration   Fall 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 4
  Artificial Nutrition and Hydration: Advancing the Conversation   Summer 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 3
  In the Literature: Ethical Reflection Continues Post-Schiavo   Winter 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 1
Autonomy
  Reflections on "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Balancing Safety and Independence with the Frail Elderly"   Winter 2013 — Vol. 21, No. 1
  Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Balancing Safety and Independence with The Frail Elderly   Fall 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 4
  Case Study: A Terminally Ill Suicide-Attempt Patient in the ED   Winter 2011 — Vol. 19, No. 1
  Understanding the Principle of Autonomy in Bioethics: Support for Conscience or Destroyer of Ethical Reasoning?   Winter 2011 — Vol. 19, No. 1
Bioethics
  Lessons from Gerald Kelly, S.J., the Father of American Catholic Medical Ethics   Spring 2015 — Vol. 23, No. 2
  Three Revolutions: Healing, Power and Ethics - Johnny Cox, RN, Ph.D.   Spring 2015 — Vol. 23, No. 2
  Bioethics Questions and Controversies   Winter 2015 — Vol. 23, No. 1
  Moving Ethics into Ambulatory Care: The Future of Catholic Health Care Ethics in Shifting Delivery Trends   Spring 2013 — Vol. 21, No. 2
  The Future of Bioethics: A New Professor's Reflection   Spring 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 2
  Book Review: The Future of Bioethics   Fall 2009 — Vol. 17, No. 4
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Brain Death
  Ethical Currents - Jahi McMath and Brain Death   Spring 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 2
  Determining Brain Death: Will Scientific Certainty Get Us There?   Fall 2010 — Vol. 18, No. 4
  Update on Brain Death   Winter 2009 — Vol. 17, No. 1
  Ethical Currents - Brain Death Revisited   Winter 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 1
Cardiac Implants
  Implantable Cardiac Devices at Life's End: Is Deactivation Morally Licit?   Summer 2010 — Vol. 18, No. 3
  Bibliography — Implantable Cardiac Devices at Life's End   Summer 2010 — Vol. 18, No. 3
Care Conferences
  Care Conference Facilitator Checklist   Summer 2010 — Vol. 18, No. 3
  Care Conference Facilitator Preparation Guide   Summer 2010 — Vol. 18, No. 3
Caritas in Veritate
  Caritas in Veritate and Catholic Health Care   Summer 2009 — Vol. 17, No. 3
Catholic Health Care
  Hospice Care and Assisted Suicide: A Crisis of Identity and Mission?   Spring 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 2
  Ethics Matters: Evangelli Gaudium   Winter 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 1
  For-Profit Catholic Health Care: A Paradox?   Spring 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 2
  Commentaries: Jon C. Abeles, Regina Clifton, Sister Laura Wolf, OSF, JD   Fall 2011 — Vol. 19, No. 4
  Institutional Catholic Health Care: Should It Continue?   Fall 2011 — Vol. 19, No. 4
  Catholic Health Ministry: Fruit on the Diseased Tree of U.S. Health Care   Winter 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 1
Catholic Health Care Ethics
  Embedding Clinical Ethics Upstream: What Non-Ethicists Need to Know   Summer 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 3
  Hospice Care and Assisted Suicide: A Crisis of Identity and Mission?   Spring 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 2
  Lessons from Gerald Kelly, S.J., the Father of American Catholic Medical Ethics   Spring 2015 — Vol. 23, No. 2
  Three Revolutions: Healing, Power and Ethics - Johnny Cox, RN, Ph.D.   Spring 2015 — Vol. 23, No. 2
Catholic Values/Identity
  Dealing with Racist Patient Requests: Law, Rights and Catholic Identity   Summer 2017 — Vol. 25, No. 3
  Embedding Clinical Ethics Upstream: What Non-Ethicists Need to Know   Summer 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 3
  Hospice Care and Assisted Suicide: A Crisis of Identity and Mission?   Spring 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 2
  Catholic Identity and the Reshaping of Health Care in the United States   Summer 2015 — Vol. 23, No. 3
  From Values to Action: Adding Depth to the Values of Catholic Health Care   Summer 2009 — Vol. 17, No. 3
Church Teaching
  A Resource for Evaluating Levels of Authority in Church Teaching   Fall 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 4
Competencies for Ethicists Objection
  Embracing New Competencies for Ethics in an Era of Population Health   Spring 2017 — Vol. 25, No. 2
Conscientious Objection
  Can Physicians Have Consciences?   Spring 2017 — Vol. 25, No. 2
  Pluralism and Institutional Conscience   Fall 2009 — Vol. 17, No. 4
  DHHS' "Right of Conscience" Regulation   Winter 2009 — Vol. 17, No. 1
  Some Thoughts on Conscience in the Delivery of Catholic Health Care   Winter 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 1
  Bibliography: Conscientious Objection   Summer 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 3
Cooperation
  Clinically Integrated Networks: A Cooperation Analysis   Fall 2015 — Vol 23, No 4
  Catholic Identity and the Reshaping of Health Care in the United States   Summer 2015 — Vol. 23, No. 3
  'Tolerance' as a Moral Conception for Catholic Health Care Ministry in a Pluralist World   Winter 2015 — Vol. 23, No. 1
  Summary Report on a Theological-Ethical Discussion of the CDF "Principles for Collaboration with Non-Catholic Entities in the Provision of Health Care Services"   Fall 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 4
  CDF Principles for Collaboration with Non-Catholic Health Care Entities: Ministry Perspectives   Summer 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 3
  A Theological Reflection on the Principle of Cooperation and the Catholic Health Care Ministry   Winter 2013 — Vol. 21, No. 1
  In Defense of the Principle of Cooperation: Potential Benefits Offset the Limitations   Winter 2013 — Vol. 21, No. 1
  The Principles Governing Cooperation and Catholic Health Care: An Overview   Winter 2013 — Vol. 21, No. 1
  Morally Licit Cooperation and FQHCs: An Opportunity for Evangelization   Summer 2010 — Vol. 18, No. 3
CRISPR
  CRISPR: What Potential? What Peril? Who Decides?   Winter 2017 — Vol 25, No 1
Cultural Competence
  Dealing with Racist Patient Requests: Law, Rights and Catholic Identity   Summer 2017 — Vol. 25, No. 3
  The Critical Components and Ethical Nature of the Concept of Cultural Competence   Winter 2017 — Vol 25, No 1
Cyropreservation
  Human Dignity and the Destiny of Cyropreserved Embryos: A Catholic Analysis   Fall 2016 — Vol 24, No 4
Development of Ethicists
  Ethicists in Catholic Health Care: Taking Another Look   Winter 2015 — Vol. 23, No. 1
  Advancing the Field of Health Care Ethics through Solidarity   Fall 2011 — Vol. 19, No. 4
  Ethics Internships and Fellowships   Fall 2011 — Vol. 19, No. 4
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Dignitas Personae
  Vatican Instruction on Bioethics, Dignitas Personae   Winter 2009 — Vol. 17, No. 1
Disabilities
  Bibliography - Martinelli   Fall 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 4
  Born Blind: The Ethics of Accepting Disabilities In an Age of Genetic Intervention   Fall 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 4
  Disability and the Future of Catholic Health Care: Bringing an "Unusual Suspect" to the Center   Fall 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 4
  What Persons with Disabilities Can Teach Us About Health Care   Summer 2011 — Vol. 19, No. 3
Disparity/Diversity
  Disparity as Indicator Species   Fall 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 4
  Inclusion and Use of Race and Ethnicity in Ethics Consultation Research   Fall 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 4 
Donation: Cardiac Death
  Donation after Cardiac Death and the Dead Donor Rule   Fall 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 4
  Donation after Cardiac Death and the Administration of Heparin: In Search of a Middle Ground   Winter 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 1
  DCD Policies: The Devil is Always in the Details   Fall 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 4
  Back to Basics: Examining the Assumptions of Donation after Cardiac Death   Summer 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 3
  Donation after Cardiac Death: A Reply to Bayley and Gallagher   Summer 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 3
  Donation after Cardiac Death: An Ethical Reflection on the Development of a Protocol   Summer 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 3
  Two Sample Policies: Donation After Cardiac Death   Summer 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 3
 
Drug Shortage
  Ethical Framework for Resource Allocation During the Drug Supply Shortage   Summer 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 3
  Bibliography - Drug Shortages and Ethics   Summer 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 3
Ectopic Pregnancies
  Early Pregnancy Complications and the ERDs   Winter 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 1
  Catholic Hospitals and Ectopic Pregnancies   Winter 2011 — Vol. 19, No. 1
Eldercare
  More on Geriatric Dialysis   Spring 2017 — Vol. 25, No. 2
Elderly
  Geriatric Sexuality   Summer 2017 — Vol. 25, No. 3
  More on Geriatric Dialysis   Spring 2017 — Vol. 25, No. 2
  Feeding Tubes in Advanced Dementia and Ischemic Stroke   Winter 2016 – Vol 24, No 1
  Geriatric Dialysis: Understanding of Effectiveness and Appropriateness Continues to Evolve   Winter 2016 – Vol 24, No 1
  Reflections on "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Balancing Safety and Independence with the Frail Elderly"   Winter 2013 — Vol. 21, No. 1
  Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Balancing Safety and Independence with The Frail Elderly   Fall 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 4
Emergency Contraception
  Ethical Currents — Ella Revisited   Summer 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 3
  Ella (Ulipristal Acetate): Taking Another Look   Summer 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 3
  Plan B — Update   Spring 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 2
  Emergency Contraception: An Update   Spring 2011 — Vol. 19, No. 2
  A New Drug for Emergency Contraception: But Not in Catholic Hospitals?   Summer 2010 — Vol. 18, No. 3
  Bibliography - The Mechanism of Action of Ulipristal   Summer 2010 — Vol. 18, No. 3
  Emergency Contraception Revisited   Fall 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 4
  Emergency Contraception   Spring 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 2
  Emergency Contraception: What's Happening?   Summer 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 3
End-of-Life
  On Charlie Gard   Summer 2017 — Vol. 25, No. 3
  Hospice Care and Assisted Suicide: A Crisis of Identity and Mission?   Spring 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 2
  Ethical Currents – "More on End-of-Life"   Winter 2015 — Vol. 23, No.1
  Care at the End of Life    Fall 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 4
  Palliative Sedation: A Review of the Ethical Debate   Summer 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 3
  Continuing Research and Reflections on Better End-of-life-Care   Winter 2013 — Vol. 21, No. 1
  Iowa Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment (IPOST) Q&A from a Catholic Perspective   Fall 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 4
  SSM Care Conference Facilitation Checklist   Winter 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 1
  SSM Care Conference Record   Winter 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 1
  End-of-Life Issues: Part Two   Summer 2011 — Vol. 19, No. 3
  Palliative Sedation: Select Bibliography   Summer 2011 — Vol. 19, No. 3
  End-of-Life Decisions   Summer 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 3
  Bibliography: End of Life   Summer 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 3
Environment
  Embracing a New Anawim – Reflections on Laudato Si'   Summer — Vol. 23, No. 3
  Francis the Ecological Physician: Assessing the Symptoms, Diagnosing the Illness and Prescribing a Cure   Summer — Vol. 23, No. 3
  Building a Framework for Green Bioethics: Integrating Ecology into Health Care   Fall 2013 — Vol. 21, No. 4
  Cleaning Up Our 'Environmental Footprints'   Summer 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 3
  Healing Our People . . . Our Planet CHW's Environmental Commitment   Summer 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 3
  CHW's Environmental Policy and Statement of Principles   Summer 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 3
  Health Care and Environmental Responsibility   Summer 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 3
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Ethicist Survey
  Ministry Responses to CHA's Ethicists' Survey   Spring 2015 — Vol. 23, No. 2
  Notes from One in the Statistical Average of Catholic Health Care Ethicists: Claims, Responses and Personal Journeys   Spring 2015 — Vol. 23, No. 2
Ethics Challenges
  Ethical Concerns with Medical Missions Abroad   Fall 2015 — Vol 23, No 4
  Catholic Identity and the Reshaping of Health Care in the United States   Summer 2015 — Vol. 23, No. 3
  Looking Back, Looking Forward: Ethical Challenges for the Ministry   Winter 2010 — Vol. 18, No. 1
Ethics Committees
  Embedding Clinical Ethics Upstream: What Non-Ethicists Need to Know   Summer 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 3
  Competencies Required for Clinical Ethics Consultation as Coaching   Fall 2015 — Vol 23, No 4
  Continuous Quality Improvement Initiatives In Ethics: A Proposed Communication Tool   Fall 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 4
  Striving for Excellence in Ethics   Summer 2011 — Vol. 19, No. 3
  Ethics Committee Evaluation Tool   Winter 2009 — Vol. 17, No. 1
  Ethics Committee Member Self-Assessment   Winter 2009 — Vol. 17, No. 1
  Bibliography: Ethics Committees in Long-Term Care   Spring 2009 — Vol. 17, No. 2
  Desired Competencies and Training for Ethics Committees   Summer 2009 — Vol. 17, No. 3
  Bibliography: Next Generation Ethics Committees   Fall 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 4
Ethics Consultation
  Assessing ROI for Clinical Ethics Consultation Services   Summer 2017 — Vol 25, No 3
  Competencies Required for Clinical Ethics Consultation as Coaching   Fall 2015 — Vol 23, No 4
  Quality Attestation for Clinical Ethics Consultations: Perspectives from the Field   Winter 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 1
  Ethical Currents – Strengthening the Quality of Ethics Consultants and Consultation   Fall 2013 — Vol. 21, No. 4
  From Call to Consult - A Strategy for Responding to an Ethics Request   Fall 2013 — Vol. 21, No. 4
  Early Indicators for Ethics Reviews   Summer 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 3
  Narrative and Ethics Consultation   Fall 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 4
  An Empirically-Driven Ethics Consultation Service   Winter 2009 — Vol. 17, No. 1
  Ethics Consultation and Quality   Fall 2009 — Vol. 17, No. 4
  Attempting to Establish Standards in Ethics Consultation for Catholic Health Care: Moving Beyond a Beta Group   Winter 2010 — Vol. 18, No. 1
  Responses from Beta Group Participants   Winter 2010 — Vol. 18, No. 1
  Ethics Consultation Redux   Winter 2010 — Vol. 18, No. 1
  Letter to the Editor   Spring 2010 — Vol. 18, No. 2
  Ethics Consulting for Multiple Catholic Health Care Organizations   Summer 2011 — Vol. 19, No. 3
  Continuous Quality Improvement Initiatives In Ethics: A Proposed Communication Tool   Fall 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 4
  Inclusion and Use of Race and Ethnicity in Ethics Consultation Research   Fall 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 4
Ethics Role
  Embedding Clinical Ethics Upstream: What Non-Ethicists Need to Know   Summer 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 3
  Competencies Required for Clinical Ethics Consultation as Coaching   Fall 2015 — Vol 23, No 4
  Ethicists in Catholic Health Care: Taking Another Look   Winter 2015 — Vol. 23, No. 1
  Bioethics as a Vocation   Spring 2010 — Vol. 18, No. 2
  The Virtues of an Ethicist   Spring 2010 — Vol. 18, No. 2
  Reflections on the Role of Ethicists in the Catholic Health Ministry   Spring 2010 — Vol. 18, No. 2
Futile Treatment
  On Charlie Gard   Summer 2017 — Vol. 25, No. 3
  A "Third Generation" Approach to Medical Futility   Winter 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 1
  The Case of Baby Joseph: When is Futile Treatment Really Futile?   Summer 2011 — Vol. 19, No. 3
  Reflections on the Case of Baby Joseph   Summer 2011 — Vol. 19, No. 3
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Gender Dysphoria
  More insight from Pius XII, a Reply to Brugger and Brehgany, and a Clarification   Fall 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 4
  Pope Pius XII and Justifications for Sex Reassignment Surgery   Fall 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 4
  Response to Bayley and Gremmels on Transgender Ethics   Summer 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 3
  Is the Soul Sexed? Anthropology, Transgenderism, and Disorders of Sex Development   Summer 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 3
  Viewing the Transgender Issue from the Catholic and Personalized Health Care Perspectives   Spring 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 2
  Sex Reassignment Surgery and the Catholic Moral Tradition: Insight from Pope Pius XII on the Principle of Totality   Winter 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 1
  Transgender Persons and Catholic Healthcare   Winter 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 1
Genomics
  Viewing the Transgender Issue from the Catholic and Personalized Health Care Perspectives   Spring 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 2
Global Health
  Clinically Integrated Networks: A Cooperation Analysis   Fall 2015 — Vol 23, No 4
Hand Feeding
  Feeding Tubes in Advanced Dementia and Ischemic Stroke   Winter 2016 – Vol 24, No 1
  Hand Feeding: Moral Obligation or Elective Intervention?   Spring 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 2
Health Care — Costs
  Access to Health Care during Medicaid Expansions   Summer 2017 — Vol. 25, No. 3
  A Bitter Pill: Prescription Drug Costs and Direct-to-Consumer Advertising   Summer 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 3
Health Care Reform
  Access to Health Care during Medicaid Expansions   Summer 2017 — Vol. 25, No. 3
  Health Care Reform: Are Block Grants the Way to Go?   Spring 2017 — Vol. 25, No. 2
  A Bitter Pill: Prescription Drug Costs and Direct-to-Consumer Advertising   Summer 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 3
  Clinically Integrated Networks: A Cooperation Analysis   Fall 2015 — Vol 23, No 4
  Moving Ethics into Ambulatory Care: The Future of Catholic Health Care Ethics in Shifting Delivery Trends   Spring 2013 — Vol. 21, No. 2
  Physicians in a New Health Care Context: Two Reflections   Spring 2013 — Vol. 21, No. 2
  Physician Blessing in Health Care Reform   Spring 2013 — Vol. 21, No. 2
  Disruptive Germination in Health Care   Spring 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 2
  Tools for Discernment on Health Care Reform   Fall 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 4
  Health Care Reform   Fall 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 4
  Raising Our Voice for Health Reform: A National Priority and Moral Imperative   Fall 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 4
  Solidarity: An Alternative to Justice in Health Care Policy Debate   Fall 2009 — Vol. 17, No. 4
  The Good of Health Care: Justice and Health Reform   Winter 2011 — Vol. 19, No. 1
  Health Care Reform: Six Ethical Elephants in the Room   Winter 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 1
HIV
  New CDC Guidelines for HIV Screening: Ethical Implications for Health Care Providers   Winter 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 1
Hospice
  On Charlie Gard   Summer 2017 — Vol. 25, No. 3
  Hospice Care and Assisted Suicide: A Crisis of Identity and Mission?   Spring 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 2
HPV Vaccine
  A Physician's View of the Ethics of HPV Vaccination   Spring 2017 — Vol. 25, No. 2
  Ethical Currents - HPV Vaccine   Winter 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 1
  Bibliography: HPV Vaccine Resources   Summer 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 3
Human Remains
  Some Guidance on Disposition of Fetal Remains   Spring 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 2
  Sample Policy and Procedures: Fetal and Infant Death   Spring 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 2
Immigration
  A Christian Ethic of Immigration   Summer 2013 — Vol. 21, No. 3
  Health Care for Our Immigrant Neighbors: The Need for Justice and Hospitality   Summer 2013 — Vol. 21, No. 3
  Immigrants and Health Care Access: Where's the Safety-net?   Summer 2010 — Vol. 18, No. 3
Institutional Review Board (IRB)
  IRBs and the Ethical Conduct of Research   Winter 2009 — Vol. 17, No. 1
  IRBs: A Select Bibliography   Winter 2009 — Vol. 17, No. 1
  Case: The Credibility of Institutional Review Boards   Spring 2011 — Vol. 19, No. 2
  Maintaining Credibility in the Use of Commercial Institutional Review Boards   Fall 2011— Vol. 19, No. 4
In Vitrofertilization (IVF)
  Human Dignity and the Destiny of Cyropreserved Embryos: A Catholic Analysis   Fall 2016 — Vol 24, No 4
IV Drug Use
  Caring for Patients with a History of Illicit Intravenous Drug Use: Ethical Obligations from Bedside to Boardroom   Winter 2017 — Vol 25, No 1
Justice
  Healthy Justice: A Liberation Approach to Justice in Health Care   Summer 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 3
Long-Term Care
  Geriatric Sexuality   Summer 2017 — Vol. 25, No. 3
  Aging and Long-Term Care: Some Ethical Challenges   Fall 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 4
  A Continuum of Care Case with Commentaries   Winter 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 1
  Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Balancing Safety and Independence with The Frail Elderly   Fall 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 4
  Reflections on "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Balancing Safety and Independence with the Frail Elderly"   Winter 2013 — Vol. 21, No. 1
Market-Driven Initiatives
  Tool for Screening and Assessing New Service Initiatives and New Potential Business Partners   Summer 2009 — Vol. 17, No. 3
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Medical Error
  Case: Medical Error   Spring 2010 — Vol. 18, No. 2
Mental Health
  Physician Assisted Suicide and Behavioral Health   Spring 2017 — Vol. 25, No. 2
Mission Integration
  Unity Across Diversity: Catholic Identify and Physician Practices in Catholic Health Care   Summer 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 3
  Beyond the Walls of Catholic Health Initiatives, Mission Integration in Emerging Markets   Fall 2013 — Vol. 21, No. 4
Narrative Ethics
  Narrative Ethics   Fall 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 4
Next Generation
  A System's Transition to Next Generation Model of Ethics   Fall 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 4
  The Next Generation of Ethics Mechanisms: Developing Ethics Mechanisms that Add Demonstrable Value   Winter 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 1
  Next Generation Model of Ethics — One Ministry's Experience   Winter 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 1
Non-Acute Care Ethics
  Bibliography – "Ethics in Non-Acute Care Settings"   Fall 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 4
  Exploring the Next Frontier: Clinical Ethics for the Physician's Office   Spring 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 2
Nursing/ERDs
  American Nurses Association Code of Ethics and ERDs Crosswalk   Fall 2010 — Vol. 18, No. 4
Organ Procurement
  When Has Death Occurred and When May Organs Be Procured?: The Next Major …   Fall 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 4
  Redefining Death as a Way to Procure More Vital Organs: A Response   Spring 2009 — Vol. 17, No. 2
Organizational Ethics
  Assessing ROI for Clinical Ethics Consultation Services   Summer 2017 — Vol 25, No 3
  Safeguarding the Hospital: The Ethics of Security in Catholic Health Care   Fall 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 4
  Moral Distress: A Different Perspective   Winter 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 1
  Toward a "Total Organizational Ethic" in Health Care Ethics   Spring 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 2
  Reader's Comment: A Reply to a 'Total Organizational Ethic'   Winter 2009 — Vol. 17, No. 1
  Building a Lasting and Effective Health Care Ethics Program: Insights from the Field   Fall 2010 — Vol. 18, No. 4
  Inside Out: The Value of a New Perspective When Evaluating and Assessing Ethics Programs   Fall 2010 — Vol. 18, No. 4
  Ethical Currents — Striving for Excellence in Ethics   Fall 2010 — Vol. 18, No. 4
  Bibliography - Employment Bans on Smokers and the Obese   Summer 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 3
  The Questionable Policy of Not Hiring Smokers   Summer 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 3
  Smokers Banned from Employment   Summer 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 3
Outsourcing
  Thinking about Offshore Outsourcing   Spring 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 2
Pandemic
  Pope Francis and the Zika Virus   Spring 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 2
  Bibliography: Ethical Preparedness for Pandemics   Spring 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 2
  Pandemic Resources   Fall 2009 — Vol. 17, No. 4
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Partnerships
  Catholic Identity and the Reshaping of Health Care in the United States   Summer 2015 — Vol. 23, No. 3
  'Tolerance' as a Moral Conception for Catholic Health Care Ministry in a Pluralist World   Winter 2015 — Vol. 23 No. 1
  Summary Report on a Theological-Ethical Discussion of the CDF "Principles for Collaboration with Non-Catholic Entities in the Provision of Health Care Services"    Fall 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 4 
  Navigating a Merger: Lessons We Learned   Summer 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 3
Pharmaceuticals
  A Bitter Pill: Prescription Drug Costs and Direct-to-Consumer Advertising   Summer 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 3
Philanthropy Organizations
  The March of Dimes   Spring 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 2
  Cooperation with Philanthropic Organizations, Conscientious Objection   Spring 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 2
  Catholics, Catholic Institutions and Susan G. Komen   Spring 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 2
Physician Assisted Suicide
  PAS: How Should Catholic HealthCare Respond?   Spring 2017 — Vol. 25, No. 2
  Physician Assisted Suicide and Behavioral Health   Spring 2017 — Vol. 25, No. 2
  Hospice Care and Assisted Suicide: A Crisis of Identity and Mission?   Spring 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 2
  Ethical Currents — Assisted Suicide: A Shifting Tide?   Fall 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 4
Physician-Industry Relationships
  Assessment Tool for Physician-Industry Relationships   Summer 2009 — Vol. 17, No. 3
  Physician-Industry Relationships: An Issue in Organizational Ethics   Summer 2009 — Vol. 17, No. 3
  Physician-Industry Relationships   Fall 2009 — Vol. 17, No. 4
Pius XII
  More insight from Pius XII, a Reply to Brugger and Brehgany, and a Clarification   Fall 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 4
  Pope Pius XII and Justifications for Sex Reassignment Surgery   Fall 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 4
POLST/MOLST
  The Catholic Medical Association's White Paper, "The POLST Paradign and Form: Facts and Analysis"   Summer 2013 — Vol. 21, No. 3 
  POLST Q&A   Summer 2013 — Vol. 21, No. 3 
  Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater!   Summer 2013 — Vol. 21, No. 3 
  Reflections on the Use of the POLST Paradigm   Spring 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 2
  POLST: Honoring Wishes at the End of Life   Winter 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 1
  Sample POLST form   Winter 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 1
  POLST (MOST, MOLST, POST)   Fall 2009 — Vol. 17, No. 4
  Ethical Currents — POLST   Fall 2010 — Vol. 18, No. 4
  POLST — Under Fire   Winter 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 1
  Iowa Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment (IPOST) Q&A from a Catholic Perspective   Fall 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 4
  Restrictions on POLST Use Continue   Winter 2013 — Vol. 21, No. 1
Population Health
  Ethics and Antimicrobial Resistance
  Summer 2017 — Vol. 25, No. 3
  Embracing New Competencies for Ethics in an Era of Population Health   Spring 2017 — Vol. 25, No. 2
  Pope Francis and the Zika Virus   Spring 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 2
  Healthy Justice: A Liberation Approach to Justice in Health Care   Summer 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 3
  A Catholic Case for Public Health   Spring 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 2
Pregnancy
  Early Pregnancy Complications and the ERDs   Winter 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 1
  Ethical Currents   Winter 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 1
  Treatment of Unexplained Subfertility in Catholic Health Care: Taking the Lead toward a Natural Approach   Spring 2013 — Vol. 21, No. 2
  Managing Abnormal Pregnancies Prior to Viability   Spring 2009 — Vol. 17, No. 2
Prophylactics
  The Use of Prophylactics and the Principle of Gradualism   Spring 2011 — Vol. 19, No. 2
Prophylactic Salpingectomy
  Prophylactic Salpingectomy to Reduce the Risk of Cancer: Ethical Considerations
  Winter 2015 — Vol. 23, No. 1
Public Health
  Ethics and Antimicrobial Resistance
  Summer 2017 — Vol. 25, No. 3
Public Policy
  Ethical Currents - Winter 2017
  Winter 2017 — Vol. 25, No. 1
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PVS
  Head Injuries: Proceed With Caution?   Winter 2011 — Vol. 19, No. 1
Rationing
  Caring for Patients with a History of Illicit Intravenous Drug Use: Ethical Obligations from Bedside to Boardroom   Winter 2017 — Vol 25, No 1
Research Ethics
  The ERDs and Clinical Research: Some Thoughts and Experiences from Georgetown University Medical Center   Fall 2015 — Vol 23, No 4
  Financial Responsibility for Study-Related Injury   Winter 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 1
  Could This Happen Today? Ethical Violations in Research   Fall 2012 — Vol. 20, No. 4
Resuscitation
  Bibliography - Family Presence During Resuscitation Attempts   Winter 2011 — Vol. 19, No. 1
  Implementing a Family Presence Program at Ministry Health Care   Winter 2011 — Vol. 19, No. 1
Spirituality
  Bibliography: Spirituality   Summer 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 3
  Religion, Spirituality and the Search for Common Ground   Spring 2011 — Vol. 19, No. 2
Stem Cells
  CRISPR: What Potential? What Peril? Who Decides?   Winter 2017 — Vol 25, No 1
  Stem Cells   Winter 2007 — Vol. 15, No. 1
Subsidiarity
  Principle of Subsidiarity: Challenges and Opportunities in Today's Health Care Environment   Spring 2008 — Vol. 16, No. 2
Transgender Health
  Insurance Coverage and Transgender Care   Summer 2017 — Vol. 25, No. 3
  More insight from Pius XII, a Reply to Brugger and Brehgany, and a Clarification   Fall 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 4
  Pope Pius XII and Justifications for Sex Reassignment Surgery   Fall 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 4
  Is the Soul Sexed? Anthropology, Transgenderism, and Disorders of Sex Development   Summer 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 3
  Response to Bayley and Gremmels on Transgender Ethics   Summer 2016 - Vol. 24, No. 3
  Viewing the Transgender Issue from the Catholic and Personalized Health Care Perspectives   Spring 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 2
  Sex Reassignment Surgery and the Catholic Moral Tradition: Insight from Pope Pius XII on the Principle Totality   Winter 2016 – Vol 24, No 1
  Transgender Persons and Catholic Healthcare   Winter 2016 – Vol 24, No 1
Vaccines
  A Physician's View of the Ethics of HPV Vaccination   Spring 2017 — Vol. 25, No. 2
  Resources   Winter 2014 — Vol. 22, No. 1
  Flu Vaccination and Ethical Ishihara   Winter 2010 — Vol. 18, No. 1
  Mandatory Seasonal Influenza Vaccinations for Hospital Employees   Winter 2010 — Vol. 18, No. 1
  Influenza Vaccination for Health Care Workers - Bibliography   Winter 2010 — Vol. 18, No. 1
Zika
  Pope Francis and the Zika Virus   Spring 2016 — Vol. 24, No. 2
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